Office of the Historian

462.00R296/5820: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Germany (Dodd)

Washington, July 7, 1934—4 p.m.

85. Your 132, July 6, 8 p.m. I desire you to spare no efforts either with Von Neurath or with any other high German official to impress upon them the growing feeling of exasperation in this country at the discriminatory attitude being practised or apparently immediately contemplated by the German Government. Your telegram did not make it clear whether or not during your talk with Von Neurath you felt this the right stage to combat the German thesis with the utmost vigor alike from the point of view of logic, equity, and its effect upon the estimated 60,000 mainly innocent holders in this country of the Dawes and Young loans, or whether this could best be done later.

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For your confidential information we are considering the preparation of a solemn admonition but meantime I wish you not only to take but also to create every possible occasion to bring about a change of attitude toward the just demands of this Government.

Hull