811.91262/306: Telegram

The Chargé in Germany ( Morris ) to the Secretary of State

2194. My 1823, May 10, noon, and Department’s 1568, June 3, 6 p.m.20 The Department will have noted from my 1974, May 20, noon [Page 615] that certain progress has been made in the handling of the Hottelet case which has now passed out of the hands of the police and been turned over to the People’s Court. The permission for officers of this Embassy to visit Hottelet from time to time has not yet materialized.

In the Nelson and Jacobsen cases the release of Jacobsen about May 15 as reported in Oslo’s 257, 15th21 shows that the case has finally again received attention at the hands of the authorities.

In the Allen case no progress has been learned of.

In the case of an American citizen, one Anthony Calabrese detained in the Cologne District, considerable improvement took place in the treatment accorded by the German authorities after the Embassy had taken the matter up formally with the Foreign Office on May 14. The case was transferred from the police to the courts and arrangements were made to permit the prisoner to have the services of a lawyer, to receive visitors, to have food sent in, et cetera.

The trial and release of another American citizen in Danzig, one Gustave Schmidt, was reported to the Department in Koenigsburg’s No. 15 of May 21.21

Finally, the Embassy was pleased to note that in Vienna where an American girl dancer got into difficulties and was charged with assaulting a policeman the case was promptly dealt with and the girl released after a light sentence.

While these facts do not indicate complaints [complete?] compliance with our requests in the cases concerned they do show that a certain definite progress has been made since the date of my last conference at the Foreign Office in the matter. I have again brought to the attention of the Under Secretary of State the Embassy’s desire for prompt action in the Allen case and its expectation of being allowed to visit Hottelet.

I am keeping in contact with Oslo in regard to the treatment of Nelson.

Morris
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