70 | John W. Warner IV displacing me at the Berghof meetings, the inner circle a pit of vipers. I hated those politics, everyone sidelined me at every turn. I was seen as weak, an occultist fool, an untrustworthy Anglophile. Adolph also hated that I brought my own food up there, clean food. Your insecurity is showing again. aJa, maybe so. Anyway, dangerous Churchill would have stepped down due to a technicality in the British Constitution, a hero to the British people still, and no more war with us would be in the new cards dealt. Certain areas of the Middle East would be German-controlled again, ancient Persepolis and Ur secured for archeology purposes. Then we would either crush the Russians or better yet make a deal with Stalin for Ukrainian farmland, that and oil from the Caucasus. Poland would be split in half again, Gorings Prussia saved. That was die deal to be made until I fouled up, missed my waypoint, and bailed out in the wrong place, late and off course in the pitch dark. A Goff- damned farmer stuck his pitchfork at me! Something else must have happened on their end too. Something went awry. A security breach perhaps. I was later met by the wrong people, angry people, suspicious. An idiot Polish officer too. Bernie pitched his cap in the air and caught it. Or they just had cold feet. The word is they had last minute reservations, the timing was off by a few months. The King supports Churchill now, all the way to Downing Street. The Duke was spared in this, Churchill thought it best for England to have him continue as a patriotic commander in the RAF, and your story has been downplayed and misdirected in the press. Theres enough royal scandal to go around. Morale is paramount. He buttoned his cardigan to ward off the damp chill, sniffling. Today, this very hour.. .perhaps that is for the best, but I still hope for peace between us. None of the English brats want to make a proper deal with me anymore. Rommel would have been recalled from Egypt, but thats just my fantasy, they said. Hitler is an asset to the Allies now, a loose cannon, insane; he makes terrible tactical decisions pumped up on daily narcotics, a nervous paranoid, a delusional wreck at times, physically ill. All they want is intelligence from me Im not willing to give until we reach an agreement thats suitable to Goring and I, but you might be correct, it may be too late, the die cast. The Celtic and Germanic people should not be fighting, we should be common-ground allies. With new technology we can defeat the savage Russians, make peace with America, create a whole new Europe. He stood, tense. Then we could raise the island of Hy