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                    DEPARTMENT OF STATE                     
 
                                                            
 
                 Memorandum of Conversation                 
 
 
DATE:
 
December 20, 1938.
 
SUBJECT: Claims of American citizens to the estates of persons 
deceased in Germany.
 
 
PARTICIPANTS: Herr Hans Thomsen, Charge d'Affaires ad interim of Germany;
 
The Under Secretary.
 
 
 
The German Charge d'Affaires called to see me this morning by 
instruction of his Government.
 
 
Dr. Thomsen reminded me of a conversation whlch I had
had with Ambassador Dieckhoff shortly before the latter's
departure in which I had taken up with the Ambassador in 
considerable detail the question of the manner in which
American citizens residing in Germany were not receiving 
treatment equal to that received by Geman citizens residing 
in the United States. Among the matters taken up by me in 
that conversation was the way in which American           
citizens because of German exchange restrictions were unable 
to receive in full legacies from the estates of person
deceased in Germany.