LONDON, March 12, 1940.
 
     I called on Mr. Eden at the Dominions Office at 
 
4 p.m. Mr. Eden was as charming and agreeable as always. 
 
He spoke with great enthusiasm of his visit to the United 
 
States, and of his two days in Washington. He spoke also 
 
of the deep impression made upon him by the President, 
 
and of his admiration for the Presldent's foreign policy.
 
       Mr. Eden expressed the belief that there could never 
 
be any solution of the present situation save through an 
 
allied victory, the destruction of Hitlerism, and the 
 
forcing upon the German people of a Government which 
 
would pursue policies that would not constitute a threat to 
 
the rest of Europe. In reply to my inquiry, he had no idea 
 
of how such a Government should be kept in control in 
 
Germany. He did not believe that the peace terms, when 
 
imposed, should contain provisions for either an indemnity 
 
or for reparations. Those provisions in the Versailles 
 
Treaty, he thought, had been a serious blunder.
 
        He saw no hope of any peace negotiations at this 
 
time. He had no belief that any disarmsment move could 
 
be considered until after Germany had been crushed, and 
 
taught that "war does not pay".
 
        In brief, Mr. Eden's conviction is that nothing but 
 
war is possible until Hitlerism has been overthrown.
 
        Mr. Eden impressed me as even more superficial 
 
than he had impressed me as being in Washington. He seems 
 
to have given no thought to any alternative to war, nor to 
 
what any eventual peace terms should be.