Nikola Tesla FBI Files - Page 114

2 Į offensive weapon to ich there was no defenac. He was convincod, he decree, of th ncerity of Kr. Chamber'i nd his intent to adopt the devico u it would have prevented e outbreak of the thom threatening war, and would have made possible the continuationund or tho duress which this weapon would make possible of the working agreement involving France, Germany and Britain to maintain the status quo in Europe. Thon Chamberlin failed, at the Munich conference, to retain this state of European equilibrium it was necessary to get rid of Chamberlin and install a new Prime Minister who could make the effort to shift one corner of the triangle from Germany to Russia. Baldwin found no virt in Tesla's plan and preemptorially ended the negotiations. - Tesla was greatly disappointed by the collapse of his negotiations with the British Government. With it there collapsed his hopes of providing a demonstration of his most recent, and, what he considered, his most important discoveries. He did not, however, dwoll on the jubject; beyond the single conversation ho did not mention the matter again. he did not get another chance to financo the demonstration of these discoveries. During the period in which the negotiations were being carried on, Tesla declared, efforts had been made to steal the invention. His room had been entered and his papers examinod but the thioves, or spies, left empty handed. There was no danger, he said, that his invention could be stolen for he had at no time committed any part of it to paper. He could trust his momory to preserve every fine detail of his investigations. This was true, he said, of all of his later major discoveries. The nature of his system makes little difference now; he has gone and has taken it with him. Perhaps, if there is any communication from beyond the veil that separates this life from whatever exists hereafter, Tesla may look down upon earth's struggling mortals and find some way of dropping a hint concerning what he accomplished; but, if the situation is such that this cannot take place, then we must await until the human race produces another Tesla. 000 114