Messersmith, G.S., [Washington]. Memorandum to the Secretary [Cordell Hull], the Undersecretary [Sumner Welles], the Counselor [R. Walton Moore], [Francis B.] Sayre, [Adolf A.] Berle, [James C.] Dunn, [Stanley K.] Hornbeck, [J. Pierrepont] Moffat, [Maxwell M.] Hamilton, [Wallace] Murray, and [Lawrence] Duggan., 1938 May 03
Item — Box: 9, Folder: F62
Identifier: 0985-00
Scope and Contents
Expropriation and seizure of private property by German government continues; relates story of a Mr. and Mrs. Jolles, Austrian or Czech citizens in Vienna, whose considerable business was confiscated shortly after German occupation of Austria; Mrs. Jolles in U.S. on business at the time; husband, a semi-invalid, was arrested; Mrs. Jolles refused to return to Vienna, but agreed to meet her husband in Paris where he was being brought under guard and would sign any papers releasing her property in order to save husband's life.
Dates
- Creation: 1938 May 03
Physical Description
Typed Document Copy, 5 p.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Delaware Library Special Collections Repository