Office of the Historian

760F.62/1315: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Czechoslovakia (Carr)83

Washington, September 27, 1938—3 a.m.

74. On the direction of the President I am sending you the text of a message which he has just received from the German Chancellor and which you may wish to give to the Czechoslovak Government. The text will not be released to the press here until noon Tuesday.

[Page 673]

The President and I would appreciate having your cable comment as soon as practicable particularly with regard to the statement in the message respecting “unnumbered dead, thousands of wounded, tens of thousands detained and imprisoned, desolated villages.”

The message follows.

[Here follows the German text of the telegram from Chancellor Hitler, translation of which is printed on page 669.]

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  1. Sent mutatis mutandis, omitting the second paragraph, to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom as No. 565, and to the Ambassador in France as No. 701.↩