462.11L5232/898
The Counselor of the Department of State (Moore) to the German Ambassador (Dieckhoff)
My Dear Mr. Ambassador: I have received your note of June 19, 1937, with further reference to the agreement concluded on May 19, 1937, between the American awardholders and the sabotage claimants, wherein you state that your Government cannot consider the assumption of the sacrifices which the settlement of the sabotage claims on the basis proposed by the claimants would require, without a full waiver by the awardholders and the sabotage claimants of their claims to the remaining balances.
I will thank you to advise me for my own information whether I can understand that if the awardholders and the sabotage claimants should be willing to waive the remaining balances, your Government would be prepared promptly to go through with the settlement without further conditions.
I am [etc.]