Messersmith, G.S., [Washington]. Memorandum to the Secretary [Cordell Hull], the Undersecretary [Sumner Welles], the Counselor [R. Walton Moore], [Francis B.] Sayre, [Adolf A.] Berle, [James C.] Dunn, [Stanley K.] Hornbeck, [J. Pierrepont] Moffat, [Maxwell M.] Hamilton, [Wallace] Murray, and [Lawrence] Duggan.
Date
1938-05-03
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University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
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Expropriation and seizure of private property by German government continues; relates story of a Mr. and Mrs. Jolles, Austrian or Czech citizens in Vienna, whose considerable business was confiscated shortly after German occupation of Austria; Mrs. Jolles in U.S. on business at the time; husband, a semi-invalid, was arrested; Mrs. Jolles refused to return to Vienna, but agreed to meet her husband in Paris where he was being brought under guard and would sign any papers releasing her property in order to save husband's life.
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Messersmith, George S. (George Strausser), 1883-1960.