811.111 Colleges 62/23
The German Embassy to the Department of State
Memorandum
It is highly appreciated that the difficulties of the German Students’ Cooperative Association concerning the German working students in the United States as set forth in the Memorandum left on March 21st at the Department of State have been partially removed by the admittance of 32 German Students in April 1930.
The main problem concerning the form of the further continuation of the German–American students exchange remains unsolved however. The Department of Labor has recently declared to Mr. Bredemann, representative of the aforesaid organization that no assurance in this respect can be given in view of the uncertain conditions in the American labor market. As the preparations for action in 1931 (i. e. selection of students, financing etc.), which require considerable time, cannot be undertaken without such an assurance it is feared that the whole institution may end.
As in the opinion of the German Embassy the aforesaid students exchange has proved a particularly valuable means for establishing [Page 113] international understanding and inspiration in the moral as well as in the practical field, such an end would seem very deplorable.
The Embassy would therefore highly appreciate it if a possibility were to be found to reconsider the present decision of the Department of Labor and declares its willingness to assume any guaranty within its authority to secure the lawful residence and departure of whatever number of German students might be admitted for the year 1931.