740.00/2016
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Chief of the Division of European Affairs (Moffat)
During the course of the call on other matters the French Ambassador said information received from Coulondre in Berlin was to the effect that the Germans had everything ready for the end of August and that they could, if they wished, strike almost without further preparation. No man’s guess is worth anything as to how Hitler’s mind would work. Reports from François-Poncet in Rome were to the effect that the Italians did not want war and would presumably argue against it, but that the decision would not be theirs. Apart from Danzig the Ambassador was most worried about developments in Yugoslavia.