THE DAILY EXPRESS

London, England

19 April 1939

(page 2)

Goering tells Hitler what Duce thinks.

Hitler returned from his inspection tour of troops in Austria to Berlin this afternoon—in accordance with plans fixed a few days ago—and four hours later had a long talk in his Chancellary with Field-Marshal Hermann Goering, whom he has not seen for a month.

Goering gave the Fuehrer a long report on his conversations in Rome with Mussolini and the Duce's son-in-law Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano.

He told Hitler, too, of his talks with Marshal Balbo, Italian Governor of Libya, which is alongside Tunisia, French African colony.

Goering brought with him the "greetings" of the Duce to the Fuehrer.

Goering, Nazi No. 2, told Hitler of Mussolini's reaction to Mr. Chamberlain's anti-aggression front activities and the message of peace wired to Hitler and Mussolinii by President Roosevelt on Saturday.

Hitler returned quietly to Berlin shortly before four o'clock this afternoon, after issuing an order of the day praising his Austrian recruits.

ONE BRITISH GUEST

While waiting for Goering, Hitler looked through the list of the seventy foreign guests of honour who have accepted his invitation to his birthday party on Thursday.

Opposite Britain was only one name—that of Major-General John Frederick Fuller [J.F.C. Fuller], D.S.O., veteran of two wars, now an author, who in interviews with German newspapers has given his blessing to dictatorship.

All the other Britons who have flirted in the past with the Nazi regime—they are known as the Nuremberg group because they appear annually at Hitler's Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg—will be absent.

Perhaps they were not invited. More probably they turned down the invitations sent by Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi Foreign Minister.

So Major-General Fuller will be the only British guest at Hitler's tea party on his birthday, at the gala opera performance that evening, and at all the others shows arranged for the foreigners.