HITLER SIGHED
TALK WITH 3IR NICHOLSON WANTED ONLY ALL EUROPE (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON. July 16 Mr Harold Nicholson is telling a storv o£ a neutral friend who dined at the Berghof, in Obersalzberg, with Hitler last summer. Hitler discussed his plans for next season in the matter-of-fact manner of a farmer discussing his crops—but in terms of continents, not fields. “If only,” he sighed, “I could meet a British statesman of my own calibre who could speak German as well as you do.” “What would you say to him?” asked the guest. Hitler made an expansive gesture towards the surrounding landscape “I should say, ‘Give me Europe and I will give you the rest of the world.’ One cannot say those sort of things through an interpreter.” “But, your Excellency,” his guest protested, “no British statesman, even if of your own calibre, wants the rest of the world. There is nothing which he would dislike more.” Hitler made an impatient gesture an danswered angrily, “Well, then, I should tell him that if he did not want it he would have to have it.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21196, 20 August 1940, Page 8
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