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PZ 5749/39(1) 'Propaganda: Articles forwarded to Persian Gulf, Kabul & Katmandu for dissemination' [‎219v] (438/715)

The record is made up of 1 file (357 folios). It was created in 10 Aug 1939-27 Dec 1941. It was written in English, French and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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29. I need not say more here than that the three main points
of the Prime Minister’s letter were (1) insistence on the determina
tion of His Majesty’s Government to fulfil their obligations to Poland;
(2) their readiness, if a peace atmosphere could be created, to discuss
all the problems at issue between our two countries, and (3) their
anxiety, during a period of truce, to see immediate direct discussion
initiated between Germany and Poland in regard to the reciprocal^
treatment of minorities.
30. In Herr Hitler’s reply of the 23rd August he declared that
Great Britain’s determination to support Poland could not modify
his policy as expressed in the German verbal note to the Polish
Government of the 9th August that he was prepared to accept even
a long war rather than sacrifice German national interests and
honour, and that, if Great Britain persisted in her own measures of
mobilisation, he would at once order the mobilisation of the whole
of the German forces.
31. At my first interview with him on that day, Herr Hitler was
in a mood of extreme excitability. His language as regards the
Poles and British responsibility for the Polish attitude was violent,
recriminatory and exaggerated. He referred, for instance, to 100,000
German refugees from Poland, a figure which was at least five times
greater than the reality. Again I cannot say whether he was
persuaded or persuaded himself of the reality of these figures. At
my second interview, when he handed me his reply, he had recovered
his calm but was not less uncompromising. No longer, he told
me, did he trust Mr. Chamberlain. He preferred war, he said, when
he was 50 to when he was 55 or 60. He had himself always sought
and believed in the possibility of friendship with England/ He now
realised, he said, that those who had argued the contrary had been
right and nothing short of a complete change in British policy towards
Germany could ever convince him of any sincere British desire for
good relations. My last remark to him was that I could only deduce
from his language that my mission to Germany had failed and that
I bitterly regretted it.
32. I flew back from Berchtesgaden to Berlin the same evening.
I had m fact little hope that either the Prime Minister’s letter or
my own language to Herr Hitler, however direct and straightforward
would give him pause. The Russian pact had, I felt, created in
his opinion a situation which was favourable to his designs and I
believed his mind to be definitely made up. Though he spoke of
his artistic tastes and of his longing to satisfy them, I derived the
impression that the corporal of the last war was even more anxious
to prove what he could do as a conquering Generalissimo in the
next.
83. Nevertheless the visit to Berchtesgaden may after all have
postponed the disaster for a week. Herr von Ribbentrop flew back
to Germany with the signed Russo-German Agreement and Herr

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The file contains correspondence, mainly telegrams, relating to British propaganda forwarded to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for dissemination.

It largely consists of weekly telegrams from the Secretary of State for India, London, to the Government of India and others. The telegrams contain Ministry of Information news items about the war in Europe (Second World War) and how to communicate them in press, publicity and public relations work overseas. Recipients include the Government of India’s Bureau of Public Information; the Publicity Officer, Bahrain; and HM Minister, Kabul.

The file also includes an extract (in Arabic translation and French original) from the book Redressement économique et Industrialisation de la Nouvelle Turquie , by Orhan Conker and Emile Witmeur, published Paris, 1937. The title is also referred to in English as 'Economic Recovery and Industrialization of New Turkey'.

The file includes two dividers, which give a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. These are placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (357 folios)
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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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English, French and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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PZ 5749/39(1) 'Propaganda: Articles forwarded to Persian Gulf, Kabul & Katmandu for dissemination' [‎219v] (438/715), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/303, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100061940184.0x000029> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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