[Moffat, Jay Pierrepont], Washington. To G.S. Messersmith, Vienna.
Date
1934-06-26
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University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
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Twenty-one page memorandum from Germans attempts to justify their moratorium [on debt payments] on grounds that her efforts to pay were in vain because of policies of her creditors; [Ambassador Hans] Luther literally demanding U.S. start commercial negotiations with Germany; [Rudolf] Leitner alleged Germany could not pay debts except to countries where Germany had active trade balance; Secretary [Cordell Hull] replied that to use debts as a pistol to reverse normal economic trends was absurd; doubts that much of definite nature took place at Hitler-Mussolini meeting; German Liberal, living outside Germany and recently returned from Vienna, asked an old Austrian friend, "You have three strong men in this country, [Engelbert] Dollfuss, [Emil] Fey, and [Ernst von] Starhemberg.... which one could arrest the others," to which the friend replied, "If the answer were clear, there would be only one of them"; have had several enlightening letters from [Raymond] Geist.
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Messersmith, George S. (George Strausser), 1883-1960.