PM                                 Bern
This telegram must be
closely paraphrased be-            Dated July 29, 1941.
fore being communicated 
to anyone. (SC)                    Rec'd 4:50 p.m., 28th
 
 
Secretary of State,
 
     Washington.
 
     149, July 29, 5 p.m. (SECTION TWO)
 
     Frontal attack by England in France and low
 
countries now preferable to attacks on flanks, since
 
only forty German occupational divisions, all landsturm,
 
plus one panzer division spread thin from Bordeaux
 
to Amsterdam, constitute entire German force in west.
 
Reinforcements at present unavailable. Nearly all
 
anti-tank artillery shipped east. Morale of landsturm
 
is bad. Results of questionnaires among German
 
officer corps and rank and file indicate, firstly
 
that their continued adherence to Hitler and regime
 
solely due to f ear of partition Germany and creation 
 
thereby of terrain favorable for a future "Hitler"
 
and, secondly, that (coupled with effective offensive
 
by England) a positive declaration by the President
 
that there will be no such partition will destroy
 
last hesitancy of army to abandon Hitler and his
 
regime and also permit creation of confederation
 
under Wittelsback with south and west German sections
 
balancing