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Memorandum by the Adviser on Political Relations (Dunn)
Referring to my conversation of January 9, 1939, with the German Chargé d’Affaires, Dr. Thomsen telephoned me this morning to say [Page 602] that he had taken up with his Government the matter of the activities of Dr. Rettig, Director of the New York Office of the German Student Exchange Agency, and had now received word from the German Foreign Office that this office is to be abolished. Dr. Thomsen said that he had been authorized to take the necessary steps to notify Dr. Rettig of the closing of the New York Office of this Agency, and to give Dr. Rettig and his staff four weeks in which to effect the closing of the office and the withdrawal from this country of the Director and members of the staff.