LONDON, March 1940
 
     At six o'clock I called again, with the Ambassador,
 
at 10 Downing Street upon Mr. Chamberlain. Lord Halifax was
 
wish him.
 
     Mr. Chamberlain handed me a personal letter which he
 
had addressed to the President, and which he asked me to
 
give him.
 
     Mr. Chamberlain said that he had been very much ira-
 
pressed by what I had said to him with regard to the
 
ignorance of the German people of what was going on in
 
the rest of the world, and of what the true peace objec-
 
tives of the Allies really were; and of the apparent
 
belief of Germany's rulers and of the probable feeling
 
of the German people themselves that the life of the Ger-
 
man Reich and of the German people themselves was at
 
stake, and that the Germans were consequently fighting a
 
war of self-preservation.
 
     He said that he wished to make it definitely clear
 
to me that he did not desire, as a war objective, either
 
to destroy the German Reich or to subject the German
 
people. He had discussed this issue at length with Lord
 
Halifax. He realized fully that if a war of terrorism
 
were now launched a spirit of hate and of vengeance would
 
be engendered which would make it well-nigh impossible,
 
when the Allies won, to lay the bases for a just and dur-
 
able peace. He considered it in the highest degree
 
important therefor that this policy of justice towards
 
the German people should be laid down in such a manner
 
that it could not be deviated from in the future. He and
 
Lord Halifax felt that public speeches were not sufficient.
 
They had reached the conclusion that there could be but
 
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