Messersmith, G.S., Berlin. Despatch No. 1284 to Secretary of State [Cordell Hull], Washington.
Date
1933-05-05
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University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
Abstract
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2 enclosures: Nos. 157, 158. Acknowledges Departments memorandum with reference to alleged treatment of two American citizens, Alexander Adler and Morris Sonders, Jews, who had been arrested and briefly detained in Berlin; calls attention to earlier dispatches in which complete report of the case was given; article in Jewish Daily Bulletin quotes men as saying they called at the Consulate immediately after release, that Consul declined to accept their affidavit, and that his attitude was unfriendly; statements in article completely false; encloses copies of cabled report from F.T. Birchall, New York Times representative in Germany, to his paper and a letter from Birchall to Edwin L. James, Managing Editor.
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Messersmith, George S. (George Strausser), 1883-1960.