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Not at all obscure was the reason that Halifax was treated as he was by Hitler: Der Führer's chief concern last week was to keep Germany's allies, Japan and Italy, from having the slightest reason to suspect that he might be making a deal behind their backs with Britain.
After being received by No. 2 Nazi Goring and No. 3 Nazi Goebbels, Lord Halifax left Berlin for London, told correspondents: "Now that the door has been opened, it will remain open!"
Same day at Augsburg, apple-cheeked Swabians cheered Orator Hitler for declaring: "What the world will not listen to now, it will have to think about in three years' time, and, in five or six, it will have to take into practical consideration. . . . Our lost property the world will have to return! . . . Germany will voice her demands louder and louder." —<->