“But we do not want to make any people into enemies prematurely and unnecessarily. Therefore we shall act as though we wanted to exercise a mandate only. At the same time we must know clearly that we shall never leave those countries.
“Our conduct therefore ought to be:
“1. To do nothing which might obstruct the final settlement, but to prepare for it only in secret. * * *”
“2. To emphasize that we are liberators.
“In particular: The Crimea has to be evacuated by all foreigners and to be settled by Germans only. In the same way the former Austrian part of Galicia will become Reich territory.
“Our present relations with Roumania are good, but nobody knows what they will be at any future time. This we have to consider, and we have to draw our frontiers accordingly. One ought not to be dependent on the good will of other people. We have to plan our relations with Roumania in accordance with this principle.
“On principle, we have now to face the task of cutting up the giant cake according to our needs, in order to be able—
“first, to dominate it;
“second, to administer it, and;
“third, to exploit it.