Here is the UK economic data calendar from Market News International dated 12/23 1:08 eastern: [[ All release dates are subject to change. [[ Date GMT Release Prior Release Median Data Through ]] 23-Dec 0930 Q3 GDP final estimate +0.4% q/q 23-Dec 0930 Q3 GDP final estimate +3.1% y/y 23-Dec 0930 Dec Q3 Balance of payments -Stg6.4 bln 27-Dec 0001 Dec Hometrack housing survey 29-Dec 0930 Nov BBA final lending data 30-Dec 1030 Dec Gfk consumer confidence -4 30-Dec 0700 Dec Nationwide house prices +1.0% m/m 04-Jan 0930 Nov BOE personal lending 04-Jan 0930 Dec BOE consumer credit Stg1.6 bln 04-Jan 0930 Dec Manufacturing PMI 55.0 04-Jan 0930 Q3 BOE mortgage equity data Stg15.0 bln 06-Jan 0930 Dec CIPS services 56.7 06-Jan 1100 Dec CBI distributive trades 06-Jan 1100 Dec CBI reported sales balance +19 10-Jan 0930 Nov ODPM house rices 12.6% y/y 10-Jan 1100 Jan CBI industrial trends 10-Jan 1100 Jan CBI monthly orders balance -4% 10-Jan 0930 Dec Producer prices 10-Jan 0930 Dec Producer input prices -1.9% m/m 10-Jan 0930 Dec Producer input prices +6.5% y/y 10-Jan 0930 Dec Producer output prices +0.1% m/m 10-Jan 0930 Dec Producer output prices +3.5% y/y 10-Jan 0930 Dec Producer core output prices +0.3% m/m 10-Jan 0930 Dec Producer core output prices +3.0% y/y 10-Jan 1800 Dec BRC retail sales -0.2% y/y 12-Jan 0930 Nov Trade data 12-Jan 0930 Nov World trade in goods -5.3 bln 12-Jan 0930 Nov Trade data 12-Jan 0930 Nov Non-EU trade in goods -2.9 bln 12-Jan 1330 Dec NIESR monthly GDP estimate 13-Jan 1200 BOE MPC rate announcement [1:08, 12/23/2004]
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Adolf Hitler wanted to cultivate a "friendship" with Britain before the Second World War but his "unrequited love" turned to hate following the Munich Agreement, a newly released Foreign Office document reveals. The briefing paper from December 1938, marked Most Secret, claims that Hitler has "all along wanted Anglo-German friendship on his own terms", namely Britain recognising his supremacy in Europe and he Britain's overseas - temporarily at least. "But this has not worked," the document adds. "British friendship had been regarded as 'more natural' than that of Italians and Japanese but, as things were turning out, Herr Hitler's feelings towards Britain were revealing all the symptoms of unrequited love." The document was prepared in the months following the Munich Agreement of September 1938, when Hitler's request that the Sudetenland be ceded to Germany was agreed to in a policy which came to be known as appeasement. Officials said that they now believed that, for Hitler and party officials, but not the German people, "Great Britain is Enemy No 1". Among the reasons given for the change of heart were his anger at the pace of British rearmament and resentment at the "popularity of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in Germany. He was also upset by Germany's "naval inferiority" and Britain's air of "smug superiority", the document said. In addition, the Fuhrer was frustrated by Britain's attitude to anti-Jewish measures in Germany, such as the Kristallnacht of November 1938. The paper adds: "In general, Herr Hitler's mood is again one of intense exasperation at what he has persuaded himself are consistent and arbitrary attempts on the part of Great Britain to block Germany's progress." Describing Hitler earlier in the document, civil servants describe what modern eyes now recognise as familiar characteristics of the Nazi leader. They describe his traits as including "cunning, vanity, moods of exultation and depression, fits of bitter and self-righteous resentment, and what can only be termed a streak of madness". The documents are available to members of the public at the National Archives in Kew, south-west London.