Interestingly this sensible UK ambassador in Berlin was replaced in 1937 by a pro-Nazi one that Foreign Sec Anthony Eden felt would ‘get long better with the dictator’….
Also him?: In the absence of support from home, all the Embassy could do was to compile despatches and show their dislike of the regime by their own behaviour. 'Animals, I hope,' replied Sir Eric Phipps when Goering, arriving late at a dinner some time after June 30, 1934, said he had been shooting.
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