“Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.”

“Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany”