123W693/571: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Germany (Wilson)
201. The situation within Germany as elaborated in your telegrams and in more detail by press despatches has so shocked the American Government and American public opinion that the President desires you to report to him in person. You are accordingly ordered to the United States for consultation.59 In announcing your departure to [Page 399] the German Foreign Office please confine yourself to the short statement that you are leaving in response to orders from your Government to report to Washington for consultation. You should plan to sail on the first available non-German ship. A subsequent telegram covering travel orders will be sent you.
- Mr. Wilson left Berlin on November 16, 1938, leaving Mr. Prentiss Gilbert in charge of the Embassy.↩