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CERVICE AMC
Germany seems to present a divergent picture, this divergence
ought to be regarded as an aberration from the previous pattern, an
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essentially abnormal phenomenon, however produced, rather than as
merely renewed ranifestation of some congenital and characteristic
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deviltry. If so, events subsequent to 1914 will go far to explain
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such an aberration from a previous path.
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In the autumn of 1933, the able British ambassador in Berlin,
Sir Eric Phipps, reported to his Government that the Nazist Régime
was "not a normal or civilized government, and could not be dealt with
as such.' His predecessor in April had dispatched a similar and even
more pointed warning; as had soon after to this country the keen
American, Messersmith. I question whether diplomatic records would
often duplicate, whether for Germany or most other Great States,
language such as I have cited from Sir Eric Phipps. Yet the absolute-
ly amazing fact is, unbelievable if it had not happened, that not-
withstanding these precise and definite prognostications, the British
and other governments went right on, treating with the Hitler Régime
as if it were as "normal or civilized" as any other. Does the
British Foreign Office read the dispatches of its ambassadors? Or
is
it staffed by men such as once described by Freeman, "who read with
all their might, but whom Heaven has forbidden to understand" ?
In the summer of 1935, on a walk I was taking with an American
professional man of high standing and great competence, my companion
remarked: "I am a hitlerite." I didn't kmow, at that date, over-much
about Hitlerism; but I knew enough not to echo my friend. This
gentleman, I have little doubt, was voicing ideas transmitted from
across the Atlantic. It is to these ideas we must go for the cause
of "the unnecessary war. #
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