701.6211/1054: Telegram
The Chargé in Germany (Gilbert) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 18—3:20 p.m.]
637. The following was released by the German news agency this afternoon. It has not yet been published in the Berlin papers.
“The German Ambassador in Washington Dr. Hans Dieckhoff has been recalled to Berlin for consultation.
[Page 402]“The Ambassador will inform the Reich Minister for foreign Affairs in detail regarding sentiment in the United States and the peculiar (eigenartig) attitude toward internal German events as expressed in the various statements of Roosevelt and other influential personages of the United States.”
I have naturally taken note of the terms in which his [this?] communiqué is couched in particular the reference to the President. I have considered taking it up with the Foreign Office on this score but have felt that under the general set of circumstances I would not do so except under instructions. I would greatly appreciate some early intimation of the policy which it is desired I should pursue in this respect.