London negotiations (1939)

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• Added named participants and meeting detail (Helmuth Wohlthat met Horace Wilson and Robert Hudson).
• New explicit scope for the talks includes military issues as well as political and economic.
• New primary-date claims: Wohlthat met Wilson on 18 July and Chamberlain spoke in the Commons on 24 July denying a proposed loan.
• A previously detailed Soviet (Maisky/Dirksen) account was substantially shortened, changing available Soviet-era evidence in the article.

Add: The contacts included the July meetings of Helmuth Wohlthat with Horace Wilson and Robert Hudson. Add: The talks explored a comprehensive Anglo German agreement on political military and economic questions. Add: Wohlthat an official in Hermann Göring s Four Year Plan organisation visited London as the German representative to an international whaling conference He met Wilson on 18 July and. Add: In the House of Commons on 24 July Chamberlain denied that the government had proposed a loan to Germany He described Hudson's discussion with Wohlthat as a personal conversation said that the Cabinet had known nothing of it and stated that the government did not intend to initiate negotiations of that kind. Replace “Maisky described meetings that Wohlthat held with Robert Hudson the minister responsible for overseas trade and Chamberlain's foreign policy adviser Horace Wilson He drew on Dirksen's records of the talks According to Dirksen's report of 21 July Hudson invited Wohlthat to meet him and outlined plans for Anglo German cooperation in world markets with a division between British and German spheres of interest Wohlthat also met Wilson at Wilson's invitation In two conversations Wilson outlined the aim of reaching the broadest possible Anglo German agreement.” with “Maisky recalled that in the summer of 1939 Soviet diplomats did not.”.

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