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Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart at AllExperts (518 words) |
 | Vansittart was suspicious of Hitler from the start; anything Hitler said, he claimed, was "for foreign consumption" and thought he would start another European war as soon as he "felt strong enough". |
| Vansittart thought that in either case time should be "bought for rearmament" by an economic agreement with Germany and by appeasing "genuine grievance[s]" about colonies. |
| Vansittart wanted to detach Mussolini from Hitler and thought that the British Empire was an "incubus" and that the Continent was the central British national interest but he had a doubt whether agreement could be had there. |
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