Frederick Voigt Gordon Phillips.
Location: [London]
Confidential handwritten messsage; Hitler gave a reception during which he said: 'we are in a state of war although guns have not yet gone off'. He cannot quote this officially, as it might compromise his source. He refers to a lengthy memorandum on Germany by Ebbutt, the Berlin correspondent of The Times, who says that the Germans will strike at Czechoslovakia by July; Vansittart agrees.