Frank:

I agree there was concern before the war. I don't hink it was sufficient to justify the argument that we "set up" Hitler, although it is true that before his invasion of Austria he was probably considered to be a slightly weird but legitimate member of the Western leader's Club. It took as much too long to realize what we were dealing with, I think, and until we did there were probably all kinds of inaccurate impressions and people acting on them, trying to keep international relations on a business footing. In fact there was a book I remember seeing from those prewar years called "You Can't Do Business With Hitler", an artifact from the dawning realization that he was a complete psycho.

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