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Lin lurg Poland ranian Yugoslavian Rand Bulgarian tury Iraq Arabian Syrian Palestina in essence he was being told by Hitler you're not a player in this world political game we don't count you for very much and we know that you've got a big political headache your isolationists are not going to let you do anything you have all these neutrality laws if we go to war against Britain and France you're not going to have a significant say in things and it I think deepened his frustration he knew it he knew Hitler was right in that sense at
least for the moment