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Because Comte Fernand de Brinon is a personal friend of onetime French Premier Edouard Daladier, his interview with Chancellor Hitler drew a direct comment from the French Foreign Office: "We are ready to talk through Ambassadors. The question is whether Chancellor Hitler is willing to submit to supervision of the armaments we know he is building. We are willing to learn the answer through diplomatic channels...
What the French General Staff most fears is a successful policy of peace by Adolf Hitler for the next few years, until Germany is strong enough to fight and win. Last week Chancellor Hitler flung down the velvet gauntlet of Peace in a significant interview with Comte Fernand de Brinon of Paris' Le Matin...
Prudently M. le comte did not tell Herr Hitler what they both knew, that France's first postulate of Security is that Germany agree to verification of her armaments by an international commission, something which Nazis contend would be "dishonorable...
...Alsace and Lorraine?" continued Chancellor Hitler. "I have said often enough that we have definitely renounced them. . . . How many times must I repeat that we do not seek to absorb what is not ours or to make ourselves loved by those who do not love us? ... I am convinced that once the question of the Saar, which is German,* is settled there will be absolutely nothing which can estrange France and Germany. Those who say I want war insult me. I am not that sort...
...clays later the French Ambassador to Germany, Andre François-Poncet, called on Chancellor Hitler in case he wished to answer the question of France. Their talk was secret. Germans hailed what they called a victory for Herr Hitler, in that he had drawn France into direct conversations on the issue of Security, whereas she has always before insisted that it should be raised only in the open forum of the League...