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As the wheel of history rolls on the brink of war, politicians and diplomats are drawn into a tense negotiation to try to avert catastrophic conflict. This article will take you back to London and Berlin in August 1939 to discuss the diplomatic dispute between Britain and Germany and how they tried to negotiate a negotiated solution to the Polish problem.
On Saturday, August 26, the British government's top officials began intensive discussions as soon as they received an important report brought back from Berlin by the British ambassador. The report comes from Henderson, Britain's ambassador to Berlin, who had just met with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to discuss Hitler's proposals.
After a two-and-a-half-hour cabinet meeting, senior officials of the British government gathered again on Sunday afternoon, which lasted nearly two hours, to discuss Hitler's recent note and how to respond to his previous note, which was sent on August 23.
While the British cabinet members were busy deliberating, Daleus appeared in London again, this time on behalf of Hitler himself. On Sunday afternoon, he met with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary Halifax, Secretary of State for the Admiralty, Sir Horace Wilson, and Secretary of War Sir Alexander Cardogan and others.
In this meeting, Dalerus detailed the conversation with Goering and Hitler the day before. Chamberlain asked if Hitler's conditions for resolving the Polish problem could be revealed, but Dalerus refused the request. He hinted that Hitler might demand the return of Danzig and the corridor, leaving a free port and maybe even a new passage to Gdynia.
The proposals came as a shock to senior British government officials, as the two demands were key points in the German-Polish dispute. Henderson's note from Hitler only reiterated that "the Danzig and corridor issues must be resolved," without further mentioning the details of a solution. Now, Dalelus suggested, Hitler expected Britain to assist Germany in acquiring Danzig and the corridor.
Faced with this suggestion, Chamberlain told Daleruth that if what he said did represent German conditions, then the problem would most likely not be solved. For Danzig, the British government considered that the maximum concessions that the Poles could make were enough. As for the corridor, they prefer a duel than submission. Therefore, the British government decided to see how the German government reacted before officially responding.
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