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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Xii, 13-134 Pp. Blue Boards, Gilt. Inside Account Of The Highest Level English-German Negotiations In The Days Just Prior To Wwii. It Reveals Such Monumental Stupidity And Incompetence Amongst British Diplomatic Staff That All Copies Of This Book Have Been Suppressed. Dahlerus, Trying To Act As An Intermediary To Prevent War, Was Unaware That Hitler Had Already Decided To Invade Poland To Expand The German Area Eastward, An Error He Corrects In His New 1947 Preface To This English Language Translation Of His 1945 Originally Published In Sweden. Birkett's Preface Dated 1946. Book Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, Touch Of Rubbing Right On Edges At Corners, Spine Leaned. Dj Very Good Or Very Good +, Not Price Clipped, Light Wear, Spine Browning, A Few Very Short Closed Tears At Edges, A Little Creasing/Bending Along Top Edge As Dj Is A Little Taller Than The Book. Inscribed "To George Eastman? But Dahlerus May Have Had A Mental Slip And Actually Meant To Be Inscribing This To Someone He Met At The George Eastman Institution In Stockholm, Or Perhaps Uses The Name As A Humorous Pseudonym For Someone Who Needs To Remain Anonymous) In Pleasant Memory Of Our Meeting In Stockholm August 1948. Yours Sincerely B. Dahlerus". Per Wikipedia, Johan Birger Essen Dahlerus ( 1891- 1957,) Was A Swedish Businessman, Amateur Diplomat And Friend Of Hermann Göring. He Attempted Through Diplomatic Channels To Prevent The Second World War. His Futile Diplomatic Efforts During The Days Preceding The German Invasion Of Poland In 1939 Are Sometimes Called The Dahlerus Mission. Birger Dahlerus Was Born In Stockholm In 1891. He Had An Excellent Network Of Contacts Of Authoritative Englishmen And Various Leaders Of The Third Reich, Such As His Early Acquaintance With Hermann Göring. Only After The Failure Of His Efforts Would The British Government Bother To Do A Basic Background Check On Him (On 23 October). The Results Were Startling, As It Emerged That His Wife Was A German National Who Owned Considerable Farm Property In Germany. Furthermore, The British Government Was Not Aware ( Aristocratically And Stupidly Didn't Bother To Analyze) That Göring Had Assisted Dahlerus In Obtaining A Marriage Permit In 1934 Or That Dahlerus Had Acted As Guardian To Göring's Stepson From His First Marriage. Had Those Facts Been Known In Advance, It Is Very Likely That Dahlerus's Services Would Not Have Been Accepted By Britain, As His Purported Neutrality Was Greatly Compromised. Dahlerus Acted As An Intermediary Between Goring And Lord Halifax. On 27 August, Dahlerus Flew To London And Met Neville Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, Sir Horace Wilson And Sir Alexander Cadogan. He Presented An Offer, Which Included A Proposal That Britain Would Agree To. Dahlerus Had Become So Significant, According To His Own Testimony, That He Felt Able To Advise The British Government That It Should Keep Ambassador Nevile Henderson In London Until The Next Day So That He Could Better React To Hitler's Response. On 29 August, At A Meeting With The German Foreign Minister, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Henderson Had Been Presented With A Document Containing 16 Points That Germany Demanded Agreement By Poland. Henderson Said That They Were Spoken Too Quickly For Him To Understand And That He Was Denied A Written Copy. On The Following Day, Dahlerus Was Given A Copy Of The 16 Points By Göring And Took Them To Henderson, Who Dispatched Him To Polish Ambassador Józef Lipski, Who Had Never Heard Of Dahlerus. As One Of The 16 Points Was That A Polish Negotiator With Full Plenipotentiary Powers Should Appear In Berlin Before 1 September, The Polish Government Deemed The Proposals Unreasonable. Dahlerus's Next Diplomatic Effort Before The Onset Of War Occurred On The Afternoon Of The Last Day Of Peace. He Proposed That Göring Should Again Meet With Henderson, Which He Did At 5 Pm. Sir George Ogilvie-Forbes, Counsellor And Chargé D'affaires At The British Embassy, Was Also Present. Etc. See Wikipedia. Inscribed by Author(s).