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...German charge that the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance treaty violates the Locarno Pact; 4) an international conference for peace. France called these proposals an ultimatum. Britain described them as merely proposals. Ambassador Ribbentrop delivered Hitler's rejection of them only to Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. If Hitler could produce counterproposals that seemed reasonable to Britain, unreasonable to France, he would succeed...
...Germany. Into the silence came bad news. The British had decided to fulfill their legal duty under the Locarno Pact, to engage in military staff conversations with France and Belgium to prepare for possible "unprovoked aggression'' against them during the period of negotiation. True, Foreign Minister Eden had told Ambassador von Ribbentrop that these talks were not to be directed against Germany. Nevertheless the British Cabinet was scheduled to meet in two days to decide when and where to hold them. Suddenly the Wilhelmstrasse had an extraordinary case of jitters...
...Foreign Office Division Chief Dr. Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff, and 26 other experts, he led the huge German delegation by air to London. The German diplomatist was at the British Foreign Office at the unprecedented hour of 9:55 o'clock the next morning, two minutes before Captain Eden...
...Impertinence, etc." To this "irresistibly attractive" spiel, the British Foreign Office did not respond like a German election crowd. It looked in vain for one "positive" amelioration of the fact that after all Hitler had violated two international treaties when his soldiers marched into the Rhineland. Foreign Secretary Eden read the document's 3,000 words through carefully, listened to Ambassador von Ribbentrop's further remarks and strode to No. 10 Downing Street where waited the British Cabinet...
Just before facing the House of Commons, Mr. Eden conferred for an hour and a half at the British Foreign Office with Ambassador von Ribbentrop, who had just breakfasted at No. 10 Downing Street with the Prime Minister. Such hospitality at such a moment undercut any sign of British firmness against Germany which listeners might think they heard in the opening of Foreign Secretary's speech to the House of Commons. "I want, in all bluntness, to make this plain to the House: I am not prepared to be the first Foreign Secretary to go back on the British...