29. Ibid., 67, quoting from Baldwin’s papers (173/61) on 15 November 1937: “The visit to Hitler constituted the high-water mark of Halifax’s appeasement.” Writing to Baldwin of a recent conversation that the League of Nations’ commissioner of Danzig, Karl Burckhardt, had had with Hitler, he remarked, “Nationalism and Racialism is a powerful force but I can’t feel that it’s either unnatural or immoral!” He added, on the eve of his departure, “I cannot myself doubt that these fellows are genuine haters of Communism, etc.! And I daresay if we were in their position we might feel the same!” When Ribbentrop, then the German ambassador in London, told Tom Jones, then an arch-appeaser, “The sooner Halifax met the Führer the better” (ibid., 64), he was right.