Back in England, Lloyd George’s praise of Hitler verged on the ecstatic, as his notorious interview with the Daily Express makes clear. ‘He is a born leader of men. A magnetic, dynamic personality with a single-minded purpose, a resolute will and a dauntless heart … He is the George Washington of Germany – the man who won for his country independence from all her oppressors.’ Even more to the point, Hitler was unquestionably a man of peace.
