Questions to Germany It is unfortunate there should have been
misunderstand- ing about the questions which Mr. Eden has undertaken to address to Herr Hitler regarding the German memor- andum of March 7th. There is no ground whatever for the suggestion that Germany is being subjected to any kind of cross-examination. But it is obviously of the highest importance that all possibility of misunderstanding proposals as important as those of Herr Hitler's should be removed. There are manifest ambiguities in the memor- andum, and certain proposals apparently plain in them- selves leave room for doubt as to their bearing on other proposals. In such a case it is no more than ordinary common sense to ask the author of the memorandum in a perfectly friendly way precisely how certain of his pro- posals should be understood. That and no more is what Mr. Eden is at present doing through Sir Eric Phipps. It is still possible, and may well be desirable, that a British Cabinet Minister should a little later visit Berlin.
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