500.A15/919: Telegram
The Ambassador in Germany (Schurman) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2:10 p.m.]
84. There has been quite general comment in the German press on Gibson’s speech at Geneva on naval disarmament, as well as with regard to the sentiments and attitude of President Hoover on the same subject as cabled from Washington by European correspondents.
It has been the fixed belief in this country that there existed between the United States and Great Britain a dangerous naval rivalry which was running the same course and was laden with the same consequences as was the naval rivalry between Germany and Great Britain for a decade and more before the World War. From the new departure at Geneva the German press foresee a release of this tension and the reestablishment of cordial relations between the two “Anglo-Saxon” Powers.
[Page 99][The remainder of this telegram consists of quotations from an article by the London correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung published in the Sunday issue, April 28, 1929.]