840.4061 Motion Pictures/120
The Chargé in Germany (Morris) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 11.]
Sir: With reference to the Embassy’s telegram No. 4929 of December 5, 6 p.m.,28 concerning the seizure by the German authorities of seven prints which belong to Loew’s Incorporated and which were in the possession of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film A. G. of Berlin, I have the honor to enclose for the Department’s information a copy of the Embassy’s Note No. 1817 dated January 14, 1941, to the German Foreign Office29 pointing out that no reply has been received by the Embassy to its urgent Note No. 1727 of December 194030 (the Department’s telegram No. 3179, December 2, 3 p.m.28), and requesting that the prints which have been seized by the German authorities, in spite of the fact that they have been duly and repeatedly notified of the American ownership thereof, be returned immediately.
Respectfully yours,
Second Secretary of Embassy
- Ibid., p. 673.↩
- Not printed.↩
- For substance of note, dated December 3, 1940, see telegram No. 4864, November 28, 1940, 4 p.m., from the Chargé in Germany, Foreign Relations, 1940, vol. ii, p. 672.↩
- Ibid., p. 673.↩