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 | | The emissaries included Colonel Tettelbach (sent by Halder and Oster), diplomats Count Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, Theo Kordt, junior German embassy official in London Edward von Selzam, Adam von Trott, lawyer Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Lt.Col. Count Erhard von Schwerin, and of course the indefatigeable Dr. Carl Goerdeler. |
 | | When Count Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin visited London on Beck's behalf in late August 1938 to obtain from Britain a concrete pledge of support (a pledge to defy Hitler over Czechoslovakia), British ambassador to Berlin, Sir Neville Henderson, advised Whitehall not to rebuff Schmenzin blatantly but not to take any initiative to receive him either. |
 | | "von Trott, as passionate an anti-Nazi as he was a patriot, spoke with perfect mastery of English, of the aspirations of the German nation as a whole...He seemed to be trying to impress upon the Minister [Lord Halifax] the necessity for an immediate adjustment of the status quo. |
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