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"It is worth a gamble to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's government, which considers that if it can show definite tangible gains for Britain in lessened risk of war, in lessened taxes for keeping up the arms race, in getting Germany into a Western air pact and in inducing her to abandon her own ruinous war economy, the British voters would not turn it out of office.
. . . "If in the preliminary conversations with Ribbentrop it appears that Hitler considers that Europe owes him colonies out of the goodness of its heart or from fear of the consequences, Der Führer will get an answer from Britain which will approximate 'no tickee, no shirtee.' "
*After a private audience with the King, the Comrade said of Edward VIII: "He asked me why we had to have a revolution in Russia, and I explained. He then asked why we had to execute the Tsar and I explained why. He impressed me as a mediocre young Englishman who reads one newspaper a day."
±Twenty-four hours after the Nazi salute in Buckingham Palace, jittery Fleet Street was bandying completely groundless rumors that the Italian Ambassador had given King George the Fascist salute, the Soviet Ambassador had raised a clenched fist at His Majesty in the orthodox Communist salute. London's Laborite Daily Herald went haywire with a speedily disproved scare story that Ambassador von Ribbentrop was in course of installing at his Embassy the most powerful radio broadcasting station next to those of the British Government. All that had happened was that the German Embassy recently put up an impressive looking aerial the better to receive Der Führer's latest broadcast.