Office of the Historian

362.115/141b: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in France (Wilson)26

Washington, May 3, 1938—3 p.m.

250. Referring to the German Decree of April 26, 1938 requiring the declaration of property of Jews including those of foreign nationality apparently for the purpose of taking over such properties, we are anxious to be informed what action if any is contemplated by the French Government.

This Government regards the German contemplated action as violating its treaty signed December 8, 1923.27 You may orally so inform the Foreign Office and also state that a similar inquiry is being made of Great Britain.

Hull
  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (No. 189).↩
  2. Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Consular Rights Between the United States and Germany, Foreign Relations, 1923, vol. ii, p. 29.↩