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Official German Opinion “Official Germany does not believe that Mr Chamberlain, even if he made war, would have the courage or endurance to wage it for very long,” wrote Mr Victor Wallace Germains in the Contemporary Review before the outbreak of war. “Their idea is that if they lead off with an offensive against Poland and smash the Polish Army, and occupy Danzig and the Corridor and Upper Silesia by armed force, and then make a peace-offensive, powerful voices would be raised in England to make peace and to leave Poland to her fate. These people, the Germans think, would raise the cry, ‘What can we do to help Poland anyhow ? It was a guarantee which ought never to have been given. Better to come to an understanding with Germany than to have a war which will last for many years, involve millions of casualties, and thousands of millions of pounds, and reduce us to bankruptcy even if we are victorious.’ The Germans do not believe that Mr Chamberlain and Lord Halifax are the right people to close their ears to such suggestions, and to carry on a war to the bitter end.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 6
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197TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 6
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