Saw frlt~rckbrdt, 2rCr OT D&nz&g, y@et~r&.ay d i s c u s s e d the

Uter hs! teledhoned t o ne saying BoetLcher (of the ~snets)

waatod .to -11 on as rand would I secs9ve him, I sa id 'tyeessfl and

he earn% this aaming. Stupid an4 rza.t;hes ailly, and ur@l iabZsr

and his ~ u r n i n g i a no " p e a t @hc3hrersN. But we ta lked &oIlito

nothangs for ten minutes wid said ELZX revoir, 1 don4% believe it

B w c k b r d t had told me t h t s month s@o he noticed solotrr

uneaoinese in Senate quarters (his veralont) and eventually they

om@ out ~ 5 t h a repart f rm B e r l i n that 2 m i g h t bocama the liead

of the Irish State and were much pertusbed and SnpArod if 1 held

ill-fcsl$.ng tomrda Clzrnany and Banaig. B e b d reylled he thought

there might be sam@thing in the r ~ ~ ~ b 7 m (BB he said he mated the

come-bsckl) but that I held no grudges over my %bere. 'when

1 m i d t o Bwakhardf that there nothing in it, he asked as

not t o tiisil lusion the Dmnrlgerstl

Fhs hundredth ~essicm of the Cownail. 58 3.n full swing, having

been inaugurated with a asr iea of d@clar?~atiaarsr o f modJ,fi%d and

qualiffed XopLly and of recs@$tS,on that things are not w b t they

might b v s been.

France torpedoed aanctfonrs in 1935-36 and 0.B. haas sinee

declared she noeepts dofinits conmitment only where vital intereat@

are involved - Prsnilse, Belgium and the k~editsrranetm. It is

l i t t l e wonder the small states b v e been ask5n.g thamselvea where

they are between the two Blocks of Big rowers ~ n d are mxioua to

avo% d obligationfr to s o t when B i g r ao~srla' (and only then sre

Antererst@d,

The ItalZm hostility to the Loape and f9naPIy dej,arture

and the C s m m nnevestM have aided fa the dtmorafisatban.

But it is w i n l y tk* muil lat ion of &-igland, the h t e m a l

situation France and, above all, the fact that both them v s a t

rowera think of the Lcape in teme of pwaly immediett;e national

interest@.

let Pebruxfr, 1938

' Conridant ial and gersonaf. y:$h, SiGCjZlj9'AiiP-G~~ERAL

I haox that Sx. S,echel, the ItalSean Consul General in Cenovo,

is being nantinatod t o the poat st Dmefg, This is >robably of

Sntt:rest, both frw the Gens= and the 5ansi.g paints of: view. In

Genetrat ft may poaaafbly anable the Osverment t o leave B o ~ a Ycro2pa

here as observer with the rank of Consdl General and a first-ciaas

imn will axso be seat t o Dmaig. S@echel ha@, 7 belSeve, the rank

of iiinfster ~~lsnigatentiscrjr and i t is interesting t o Bee hdrn chosen

for ilansig xkich is pxn excefZsnt observhttian post for Ge-maw, as