English Translation

-2- Although opinions are not yet clear, it is perhaps possible to say that they will be concrete in the course of Saturday: there is no prospect that London and Paris will retreat. If one could motivate this opinion so far with the fact that both governments retreating seemed to be equivalent to the granting of a free letter to Hitler for the conquest of Europe and after that the prostration of England and France, then now an encouragement is added by the Moscow Treaty. As hard as the disappointment that London and Paris feel about the "treason" of Moscow is, so much so have emerged at the Quai d'Orsay opinions, according to which the advantages are greater than the disadvantages. With Moscow as an insecure confederal, England should have had great concerns in East Asia and the Mediterranean whenever war broke out against Germany, rich in France at its Pyrenees border. The strategic situation has, they say, changed greatly in favour of the Western powers. The moral element had shifted significantly in favour of the Western powers. The German force Hand ih Hand with Moscow against the bourgeois world - and this after six years, in which the anti-communist argument was essential for Hitler's friendliness in England, France, America, etc. was - was a thought that had replaced the complication of dgs Danzäger Calcüls in favor of the Western powers. In addition, one thinks at the Quai d'Orsay that it is now really in the final decision. If Hitler dares the war with England, it is his last chance. If he turns him aside and directs him, it will be the end of his international cretdt. After that, even the Moscow Treaty would look differently than it is today. It would be the complete isolation of a regime that no one could trust any more, but which then showed how much conflict there was between its threatening gestures and its real resistance. Also, a "peaceful" settlement of the Gdańsk question would follow the decline of the Third Reich. In this connection, I would like to point out that statements in which Germans who seem to have military and political authority, after the conclusion of the Moscow Treaty, have stressed to French journalists that they are now Russian petroleum, etc. There are important officials both in London and in Paris who regret that Roosevelt and King Leopold did the well-known demarches.