On 24 October he spoke publicly of the dangers to Britain and Europe of German rearmament and of the German population being 'trained from childhood for war.'13 On the following day the British Ambassador in Berlin, Sir Eric Phipps, sent the Foreign Office an article by the London correspondent of the official Nazi Volkischer Beobachter, stating 'that as soon as Mr Churchill opens his mouth, it is safe to bet that an attack on Germany will emerge. He is one of the most unscrupulous political intriguers in England. His friendship with the American Jewish millionaire Baruch leads him to expend all his remaining force and authority in directing England's action against Germany. This is the man whom the government are apparently thinking of including in the Cabinet.