Moffat, [Jay] Pierrepont, Washington. To G.S. Messersmith, Vienna.
Date
1934-08-22
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University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
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Was on leave July 23 to Aug. 20 so was absent during Vienna crisis of July 25; have read with interest dispatches and letters that arrived during absence; narrow time margin between success and failure of Nazi putsch; immediate Italian action important in forestalling further trouble; impressed by the calm good sense of Austrian population; [Kurt] Schuschnigg still an unknown entity in U.S.; asks that Messersmith send character sketch; Douglas Jenkins, who is to be new Consul General in Berlin has been spending some time in Department going over correspondence from Germany; extent and importance of work of that office have appalled him; impressed, however, of shrewdness of his comments on [Hans] Luther and [Rudolf] Leitner following visit to German Embassy; wife still in Japan visiting her parents [Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph C. Grew].
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Messersmith, George S. (George Strausser), 1883-1960.