"... ce que vous dites de l'effroyable danger qui nous menace, combien de fois ai-je essayé de le faire comprendre à des parlementaires soit-disant "patriotes", "nationaux"..."

Autograph letter signed by Xavier de Hauteclocque (39 lines in black ink on Continental Hotel Berlin letterhead) written from Berlin and addressed to Léon Daudet thanking him for: "... l'éloge que vous avez eu la bonté de consacrer encore à mon bouquin sur l'hitlérisme..." ["the praise you were kind enough to devote once again to my book on Hitlerism"] which he had published in the monarchist and Germanophobic daily Action Française.
Although having sounded the alarm concerning the grave dangers posed to Europe by the Nazi party's rise to power, Xavier de Hauteclocque despairs of being heard even by supposedly nationalist or patriotic circles: "... hélas ! monsieur, ces crétins chamarrés de tricolore non seulement ne m'ont pas cru, mais j'avais l'impression terrible qu'ils ne m'entendaient même pas..." ["alas! sir, these cretins bedecked in tricolor not only did not believe me, but I had the terrible impression that they did not even hear me..."], "les rebuffades désespérantes que j'ai essuyées de la part de gens en qui trop de nos malheureux concitoyens vient des 'remparts de la Patrie'..." ["the despairing rebuffs I suffered from people in whom too many of our unfortunate fellow citizens see the 'ramparts of the Fatherland'..."]
It is for this reason that he praises the clairvoyance of the Action Française newspaper and more particularly Léon Daudet's articles regarding the question of Nazi Germany: "... c'est vous qui nous ragaillardissez, nous, les journalistes qui allons chercher des renseignements authentiques dans le camp d'en face..." ["it is you who reinvigorate us, we journalists who go to seek authentic information in the opposing camp..."]
Fold marks inherent to postal dispatch.
Decorated with the Croix de Guerre in 1914-1918 (at 18 he had volunteered early on July 15, 1915 to join the 3rd Hussar Regiment at Saumur, his father and brother having fallen in battle in 1914), first cousin of Marshal Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Xavier de Hauteclocque was a military man, journalist and writer who ceaselessly denounced vigorously, through his writings and reportage, the dangers of Adolf Hitler and his party's seizure of power in Germany. In 1935 in Paris, he died poisoned by the Nazi regime whose works such as La Tragédie brune, À l'Ombre de la Croix Gammée or Nuit sur l'Allemagne disturbed them.