Belatedly last week the German Foreign Office came out with a 3,000-word reply to the famed and bestselling, 195-page British Blue Book on the origins of World War II (TIME, Oct. 2). Its chief point:
"For those who know how to read, this English collection of documents is really a unique and positive proof of England's unquestioned will to war. . . . That the goal of [British Foreign Secretary Viscount] Halifax and his helper, the British Warsaw Ambassador [Sir Howard] Kennard, consisted of keeping the Poles from entering into serious negotiations...
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