760C.62/1043: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 26—8:04 p.m.]
1613. Bonnet asked me to call on him this evening and said that Coulondre had telegraphed briefly from Berlin that when he had presented to Hitler today Daladier’s reply (see my 1610, August 26, 6 p.m.) to the remarks that Hitler had made yesterday to Coulondre [Page 377] and had stated that Daladier would be most happy if he could play the role of conciliator to bring about direct conversations between Poland and Germany Hitler had replied that he could not accept this method of procedure.
There is much suspicion in Paris tonight that Chamberlain and Henderson have been engaged today in preparing a careful betrayal of Poland using a variation of the technique that they employed so successfully on Czechoslovakia. I have been unable to find any fact to support this interpretation of the deliberations of the British Government.
Bonnet stated to me this evening that Corbin74 had telephoned to him that the British Government was continuing to maintain an absolutely stiff attitude.
- Charles Corbin, French Ambassador in the United Kingdom.↩