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WI1EN WIEDEMANN personally reported to Hiller alter on American tour, the foreign office recorded that Wiedemann's ‘‘persuasive power was diminished by what the fuehrer had read. Dieckhaff shortly was recalled to Berlin.2. The N*r/.i KovrnirnOrit Cimt-sbouldcrtxl Fritz Kuhn and theGcrman-Amcricnii bund, on tJu? urging of Dieckhofl. The envoy reported to Berlin that a proposal to form an assault truop in the United Stales of from 10,000 to 20,000 saboteurs was “childish” and “dangerous.” He sairt the American police would quickly seize the list of in cm hors.3 The German ambassador to Britain reported that American Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy told him in London in HKiB that Roosevelt was “not anti-German” but received spotty advice. Kennedy was represented as strongly impressed by reports on Germany by CoL Charles A. Lindbergh. The German envoy said Lindbergh had spoken very favorably. Kennedy was quoted as saying that Germnn-American relations suffered over the Jewish question not so much because the Nazis wanted to get rid of the Jews but because of the loud clamor with which they went about it.• * *4. PRESIDENT Roosevelt’s Chicago speech of Oct. 5, 19371 proposing n “quarantine” of aggressor nations was taken by the Nazis as directed at Japan and j possibly Italy, rather than al Germany.These reports on Nazi official, views of the United States three j years before Pearl I-iarbor were * among about three score docu-: ments bearing directly on Gcr-; man-Amarican relations.Nearly 750 others dealt with j subjects which officials said have j already received close attention j from historians—prewar efforts j of Britan and France to reach j an understanding with the Axis, i
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The Lima News
Lima, Ohio, US
Sun, Jul 17, 1949
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