File No. 763.72119/154
The Ambassador in Germany (Gerard) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 9, 12.30 p. m.]
3972. Your 3062, June 6, 2 p. m. Interview with Munich paper correct and made very good impression here. This interview was [Page 35] wanted by authorities who wish to keep peace with America and contained nothing but the merest generalities. Interview with evening National Zeitung pure invention and already publicly denied in prominent newspaper here. Paris Journal of June 4 contained New York dispatch copied from Daily Express, presumably English paper, stating that Grew has stated to the Department, “If the harvest is unfavorable there will be serious riots and the demand for peace, which is growing at this moment, will become insistent.” Hope you will authorize me to state that Department gave out no such statement.