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and what did Lord Crewe think about Austria. Lord Crewe
 
then gave a very long and rambling account of how he and
 
Count Adam Czartorynski had dined together in Paris in 1893,
 
and of how the Count had told him that all of the Austrian
 
Poles were more than satisfied to be under Austrian sover-
 
eignty. Lord Crewe reminded us that several Austrian Foreign
 
Ministers had been Poles. His conclusion was that Austria
 
should be reconstiuted as the end of the war; that Bavaria
 
and other portions of Southern Germany should be added
 
it, and that Poland, at least in part, should revert to
 
Austrian jurisdiction.
 
     The next to speak was Sir Dudley Pound, the First Sea
 
Lord. His contribution was the assertion that the present
 
war was the direct result of the erroneous military policy
 
pursued by the Allies, and particularly by the United
 
States, at the end of the Great War. He said that in 1918
 
the Allies should have occupied all of Germany, and, most
 
important of all, should have razed Berlin to the ground. 
 
Now, he stated, the same mistake should not be committed 
 
again, and the present Allies should never permit them-
 
selves to be deflected from the proper course. At the con-
 
cluslon of the present war, Berlin should be destroyed;
 
Germany should be divided up into several small principal-
 
ities, and the larger cities in these new entities should
 
be occupied by British and French troops for a period of
 
at least 50 years. That, he said will permit a new gener-
 
ation of Germans to come into existence before we try the
 
experiment of letting Germany govern itself agsin.
 
       Oliver Stanley then held the floor. He said he wished 
 
me to realize that the British people demanded that the
 
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