741.62/71: Telegram
The Ambassador in Poland (Cudahy) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:58 p.m.]
38. Aveling, First Secretary of British Embassy, informs me that Eden told him the following concerning statements made to Eden by Hitler during their conversations in Berlin:
Hitler forcefully and without equivocation insisted upon Germany’s right to 36 divisions and said that he means to augment German military forces regardless of all opposition.
Hitler vigorously expressed opposition to any pact involving mutual assistance or to any consultative pact giving majority of signatories the right to decide what constitutes aggression and to take military measures against an alleged aggression. He stated very solemnly to Eden that Germany has no alliance or understanding of any kind with Poland other than non-aggression declaration of January 26, 1934,71 which he said would be faithfully executed by Germany.
Hitler expressed great fear of penetration of Bolshevism and said that sole hope of saving Germany and Western European civilization is for Germany to rearm for the inevitable onslaught.
Eden made no attempt to conceal the sharp and apparently irreconciliable differences between Hitler and the British Foreign Office.
In conversation with me today Beck72 confirmed the foregoing,