“…Hitler spoke over the radio to Germany, the rest of Europe and the United States, announcing the German withdrawal from the League [of Nations] and from the Disarmament Conference and proclaiming a Reich election for November 14. The speech was moderate for him. He demanded equal rights with other nations as to armaments, defended his ‘revolution’ as simply an anti-Communist move, and assured the world of peaceful intentions…It was not the address of a thinker, but of an emotionalist claiming that Germany had in no way been responsible for the World War and that she was the victim of wicked enemies…The Germans have made another huge blunder for want of statesmen.”
William E. Dodd, United States Ambassador to Germany, Ambassador Dodd’s Diaries, October 14, 1933