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214 Notes to Chapter One

58. tNa, FO 371/19919, pp. 83–86.
59. ibid.
60. MacMillan, Paris 1919, pp. 166–79.
61. Klein, Germany’s Economic Preparations for War, passim.
62. On these estimates, see the dispatch by Newton to simon, september 6,
1933, BdFa, series F, vol. 46, p. 296.
63. see thorne’s entire report in BdFa, vol. 44, pp. 297–306.
64. BdFa, series F, vol. 45, pp. 213–21; for the entire report, see pp. 223–41.
65. BdFa, series F, vol. 46, pp. 84–90.
66. ibid., p. 113.
67. ibid., p. 341.
68. tNa, FO 371/1885, pp. 33–35.
69. self, Neville Chamberlain, vol. 4, p. 23.
70. BdFa, series F, vol. 46, p. 165.
71. BdFa, series F, vol. 47, p. 377.
72. Churchill, The Gathering Storm, pp. 192–99.
73. Quoted in Weinberg, Hitler’s Foreign Policy, p. 253. see pp. 240–95 for a full
discussion of the rhineland question.
74. the quotations are from Kershaw, Hitler, 1889–1936, p. 188.
75. Quoted in Jaroch, Too Much Wit? p. 241.
76. tNa, FO 371/19893, p. 145.
77. Jaroch, Too Much Wit? p. 244.
78. BdFa, series F, vol. 47, pp. 170–71.
79. see especially Johnson, Our Man in Berlin, pp. 4–5; Johnson, “sir eric
Phipps,” pp. 651–69; Neville, “the Foreign Office,” p. 114; Kershaw, Making Friends,
pp. 44–45. For a comprehensive and perceptive analysis of Phipps’s seemingly con-
flicting or divergent views on Hitler and Nazism, see Jaroch (Too Much Wit?), who
concluded that especially after 1935 the ambassador sent dispatches to london that
agreed with those in Britain who favored “a critical attitude toward National social-
ism and its representatives” (p. 336).
80. Herman, The Paris Embassy of Sir Eric Phipps, p. 101.
81. ibid., pp. 112–13.
82. For details, see ibid., p. 113.
83. Johnson, Our Man in Berlin, p. 35. see also the dispatch of January 30, 1936,
by François-Poncet, in which the French ambassador pointed out that Phipps was
“very opposed” to making any concessions to Germany regarding the return of
colonies. it was also clear to François-Poncet that Phipps detested Hitler’s regime.
see ddF, 2 série (1936–1939), vol. i, p. 162.
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84. BdFa, series F, vol. 47, p. 326.
85. BdFa, series F, vol. 45, p. 43.
86. ibid., pp. 43–45, 208.
87. tNa, FO 371/19893, p. 200.
88. Jaroch, Too Much Wit? pp. 119, 275–77.
89. BdFa, series F, vol. 48, pp. 101, 103.
90. ibid., pp. 97, 100.
91. ibid., p. 99.