Personal
 
 
 
Dear Mr. President:
 
 
I congratulate you on what I think will be your second great popular
majority. You have therefore another four years, and I fear your
problems are going to be as difficult as those of Woodrow Wilson in
1917.
 
 
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According to your request of early August, I have had three talks with
officials here who see the Fuehrer often and who seem to know his
purposes. The first of these talks was with Dr. Schacht, who fears war
here the most. I wrote you that he was a little hopeful, but that
Hitler
could not participate. On the 16th of September I saw Secretary
Dieckhoff, brother-in-law of von Ribbentrop, one of the favorites of
the Fuehrer, now Ambassador in London. Incidentally, the TIMES story
was mentioned. He was of the same attitude as Schacht, only less
committal. On the 15th of October I saw Minister von Neurath, head of
the Foreign        Office here, and the subject of German-British
relations was discussed. When I asked whether Germany would really
participate in the oft-proposed Locarno conference, he said: "In case
England satisfies the Italian demands." This led to a reference to the
imminent danger of war here, and I asked whether Hitler would agree to
participate in a peace conference of the greater Powers. He said: "0nly
in case the
 
 
The President
The White House,
Washington.