ways to improve Anglo-German relations, which cast France as the main problem in European affairs. Ribbentrop did most of the talking while Lothian typed up the memo. The next day, Lothian sent the memo to the Foreign Secretary, Sir Anthony Eden, who does not seem to have been impressed. At an Anglo-German Fellowship dinner held on 14 July 1936 (a date picked deliberately to spite the French), Lothian in his speech called for the end of "the Versailles attitude of mind", through in the same speech he also admitted that the anti-Semitic policies of the Nazi regime gave Germany an image problem in Britain. Again in May 1937, he travelled to Germany to meet Hitler with Conwell-Evans once more serving as the translator. At the second Lothian-Hitler meeting, Hitler was joined by his economic team, namely Hermann Göring, the chief of the Four Year Plan Organisation, and Hjalmar Schacht, the Economics Minister and the president of the Reichsbank. The second Lothian-Hitler meeting was dominated by economic issues. Both Göring and Schacht-who were also both fluent in English-supported Hitler's demand at the meeting for the return of Germany's former African colonies, claiming that the German economy could not function without a colonial empire in Africa as it was asserted that Germany needed its former African colonies to feed its people without exhausting its reserves of foreign exchange (Germany had more people than what German agriculture was capable of supporting, requiring the Reich to import food). At the beginning of the interview, Lothian reported that Hitler was "in a grave mood", but that after an hour "the atmosphere became considerably lighters and there were smiles all round". Lothian asked Hitler what were the causes of the "deterioration in relations from the German point of view", and received the reply the main issues were "Abyssinia, Spain and the colonial question". Hitler ended the interview by saying that "common sense would prevail and...the two peoples [German and English] racially alike with the finest qualities would not commit suicide by waging war against each other". Lothian wrote after his second visit to Germany that the international situation was "both more dangerous and more soluble than I thought". Lothian came away convinced that Hitler's main demand was the return of Germany's lost colonial empire in Africa, which led him to conclude that Britain, France, Belgium and South Africa should return the former German colonies in Africa