Appeasement something for the frenchies hey?

"From the standpoint of
stable political conditions,
it is perhaps well that Hitler
is now in a position to wield
unprecedented power."
- U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Frederic Sackett,
1933
Source: Letter to President Roosevelt, U.S. Department of State, Foreign
Relations of the United States, 1933, 2:209.

"There are only two governments in Europe capable of
being a real victor. One is Germany, and the other is
Russia . . . I shudder to think of a Russian domination of
Europe. While a German domination would be hard and
cruel, at least in the beginning, it would be an
intensification of a culture which is more akin to ours
than that of Russia. Further than that, if Germany should
be dominant throughout the greater part of Europe, she
would act as a bulwark against the westward progression
of Russia."
- U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Breckinridge Long, 1935
Source: Letter, Long to Roosevelt, 19 April 1935, Italy: Long, President's
Secretary File, FDR Papers, Roosevelt Library. Cited in David Schmitz, the
United States and Fascist Italy, 1988, p. 156.