VON NEURATH: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: And you remember the letter which you wrote on the 12th of March 1938?
VON NEURATH: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: And you admitted to Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe that the statements in that letter were untrue?
VON NEURATH: Untrue, yes—not entirely. They are presented incorrectly.
THE PRESIDENT: What steps did you take to find out whether or not they were true?
VON NEURATH: I did not learn of the incorrectness of this presentation until much later.
THE PRESIDENT: That is not an answer to my question. I said, “What steps did you take to find out whether the statement was correct?”
VON NEURATH: The statement which Hitler gave me I first simply presumed to be true. I certainly could not check up on it in any way.
THE PRESIDENT: Why should you assume it to be true when it was in contradiction of what the British Government had stated?