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of a lasting peace if the attack for peace is made upon
 
the issue of security.
 
     If the great powers of Europe--even exclusive of
 
Russia-could be shown a practical means of obtaining
 
security and disarament, neither the political peace 
 
required, nor the essential economic basis for a 
 
real peace, would, in my Judgment, offer any insuperable
 
obstacles.
 
     I do not underestimate the magnitude of the task of
 
finding any hope of a real peace so long as Hitler and
 
his regime remain in control in Germany.
 
        The German people are living a life which seems the 
 
existence of people on another planet. To them lies have 
 
become truth; evil, good; and aggression, self-defense. 
 
But yet, back of all that, their real demand is security, 
 
the chance to live reasonably happy lives, and peace.
 
I agree fully with Mussolini that no people at this time
 
wants war. If the German people today are united behind 
 
Hitler in the war  as I feel the majority are--I believe 
 
it to be solely because they sincerely fear that their
 
own safety is at stake.
 
     The one slight hope of peace, before Europe plunges    .
 
 
into a war of devastation, or drags through a long-drawn-
 
out war of attrition, so long as the National Socialist
 
regime remains in power in Germany, is the agreement by
 
the great powers of Europe upon some practicable plan of 
 
security and of disarmament. This would be the "miracle"  
 
spoken of by Mr. Chamberlain which would persuade Great
 
Britain and France once more to negotiate with Hitler.
 
     The initiative, in any such attempt, could not come
 
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