If I may explain to the Tribunal, it is not the defendant’s document book, it is the Prosecution’s book. I will see, hereafter, that it is correct.
[Turning to the defendant]: Now, this letter from your ambassador to the Foreign Office...
VON RIBBENTROP: Yes, I know about that letter. May I...
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Just let me refer you to Paragraph 1. I refer you also to Paragraph 3, so you need not be worried that I shall miss it.
Paragraph 1:
“The line of German Foreign policy, as transmitted by the German Legation, is exclusively decisive for the policy and tactics of the Sudeten German Party. My”—that is, your ambassador—“directives are to be complied with implicitly.”
Paragraph 2:
“Public speeches and the press will be co-ordinated uniformly with my approval. The editorial staff of Zeit is to be improved.”
Paragraph 3:
“Party leadership abandons the former intransigent line which, in the end, might lead to political complications, and adopts the line of gradual promotion of Sudeten German interests. The objectives are to be set in every case with my participation and to be promoted by parallel diplomatic action.” (Document Number 3060-PS)