Manchukuo will be an impossibility’ "3. I then asked him about the campaign against England proper to which he replied that before launching landing operations against England, Germany will probably completely wipe out Britain's influence in the Near East, Africa, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea* I got the impression that more emphasis is being placed on this area than heretofore. So, I asked whether it was Germany's intention to conclude the war without attempting to go through with a campaign against England. "Ribbentrop: 'Germany has, of course, made all necessary preparations for this campaign. However Germany is in receipt of intelligences which would seem to indi¬cate that all is not well within England herself. For example, we hear that there is a split within the ranks of the Conservatives; that Churchill's influence is on the wane; that Bevin, Chief of the Labor Party, is advoca¬ting revolutionary measures. All of these are tending to make the preservation of order there increasingly difficult* "'Of course,kI am not one to implicitly believe all of this. However, I am convinced that things $re getting bad in England. Under these circumstances, it may be that Germany's various other campaigns may cause England to fall even without our going through with our landing operations against England herself*