“The American Jews will make the greatest possible mistake, Victor, to drag in the United States. Lacouture is their friend, if they’ll only listen to him. You know what the Führer said in his January speech—if they start another world war, that will be the end of them. He was in deadly earnest, I assure you.” Aware that he was butting a stone wall, but unable to let these things pass, Pug said, “Peace or war isn’t up to the Jews. And you grossly misunderstand Lacouture.”
