"That was not always the case. In 1813 the German Army was prohibited by treaty. Yet I do not recollect that at Waterloo Wellington said to Blücher: "Your army is illegal; kindly leave the field.""
— Adolf Hitler

January 1, 1970

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Reply to the British Foreign Secretary, John Simon, who told Hitler that the British liked to see treaties observed (c. 24–27 March 1935), quoted in Ivone Kirkpatrick, The Inner Circle (1959), p. 68