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2600:8801:2209:5800:A084:3F2A:48C6:1C87 (talk) 01:31, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Someone describe exactly how a citizen comes to "regretted that Neville Chamberlin could not bring himself" to make a decision. How is regret assigned to anothers' actions, or lack of action?? Unorthodox me, I've always thought regret was internal and exclusive to the person failing.(Even if you insert the needed citation, I'll have to object.)2600:8801:2209:5800:A084:3F2A:48C6:1C87 (talk) 01:31, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

German General Staff secret meeting at Jona von Ustinov's home

German resistance to Nazism: There are interviews with Peter Ustinov with Michael Parkinson on his talk show where he mentions Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg being involved in a 1938 attempt to prevent the outbreak of war. Ustinov's father was a Press Attache attached to the German Embassy in London earlier, having left in 1935 and given notice in a welsh newspaper of intention of becoming a British Subject, and become a British Subject. In 1938 he received a telephone call from von Schweppenburg (who was the German Military Attache at the time) in which he asked Ustinov's father to try and get the British Government to make a firm stand against Hitler at Munich, because von Schweppenburg said, it was the last chance they (i.e., the German General Staff), had of stopping Hitler. Ustinov's father was revealed in 1999 to have been working for British Intelligence at the time. A secret meeting was held between members of the German General Staff, each having gone to separate European airports and taken commercial flights to the United Kingdom, and British General Staff at Ustinov's home, on the fourth floor of 34 Redcliffe Gardens, London. They despised Hitler would have "defected". The British however, decided, (presumably regarding the proposals put forward by the Germans at the meeting) that 'they couldn't risk it as it might be a trap'.

Peter Ustinov describes that night as coming home from drama school, and being told to immediately go out and spend money, nine pence, on a movie, two things his father disapproved of, he was given the money. Having acted slowly on his father's instructions, he was witness to a group of wheezing fat old men, trudging up the flights of stairs to his family's lodging on the top floor, pinned against the wall as they all passed by. Peter Ustinov, five years, asked Jona von Ustinov about that night.

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Peter Wright, Spycatcher, 1987

Peter Wright, Spycatcher, 1987, p.67-70 discusses Klop and Wolfgang Gans zu Putlitz, no mention of U35, but tells of MI5's failure to pay to Jona von Ustinov his pension for wartime service, until contacted by Peter Wright and only much later....

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