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seemed like a happy dream of another world,,and very long
 
ago. I said that I had never known of a more completely
 
successful visit, and that I believed it had created a
 
very genuinely friendly feeling on the part of many mil-
 
lions of my fellow-citizens.
 
     The Queen then began to ask me questions regarding my
 
impressions of Germany, imnediately thereafter saying that 
 
she knew she should ask them. I evaded replying as grace-
 
fully as-I could, limiting myself to saying that I had been
 
most courteously received, but that the newspaper reports
 
that Herr yon Ribbentrop had refused to speak to me in
 
English were correct. Both the King and Queen spoke with 
 
vehement detestation of Ribbentrop, and the Queen told me 
 
of various incidents when Ribbentrop had behaved with
 
gross discourtesy at the Court. She said that one of his
 
difficulties had been that when he arrived in London he
 
had been immediately surrounded with the "wrong people",
 
who had given him no true idea of how the British people
 
really felt towards Germany.
 
     The Queen spoke of the problem which was now created
 
for her by the fact that Madame Maisky, the wife of the
 
Soviet Ambassador, had just become doyenne of the Diplo-
 
 
matic Corps. She felt it would be impossible for her to 
 
have any of the diplomats, even informally, to dine, since 
 
she would not receive the Soviet Ambassador and his wife.
 
       As I left both the King and the Queen asked that I 
 
convey their-affectionate remembrances to the President 
 
and Mrs. Roosevelt, and say that they would never f orget 
 
their date in the United States. They also asked articularly to 
 
be remembered to Secretary and Mrs. Hull.
 
 
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