“In informing your President of this meeting, tell him that I said the Führer will not refuse to receive Welles, but sees no hope in it—and neither do I—unless the British and the French drop their war aim of removing the Führer. That is no more possible than it is to move Mont Blanc. If they persist in it, the result will be a frightful battle in the West, ending in a total German victory after the death of millions.”
