Berlin, March 12, 1938
 
 
My dear Mr. President:
 
 
 I wrote you a week ago about my first interview
with the Reich Chancellor. I have subsequently had
another talk with him on the occasion of Mr. Hoover's
visit, but as we are preparing a formal despatch on
this subject I will not go into detail.
 
 
 In this second conversation I found his attitude
much less strained, although it was far from being in-
formal. There was an occasional attempt oh his part
at humorous exposition, usually in the form of
ostensibly exaggerated statement. We discussed
sociological and economic questions almost entirely,
the only ideological one being that both Mr. Hoover
and he were convinced that for his own country,
without attempting to speak for the other, the
present ideology was the best.
 
 
The President,
 
The White House,
 
Washington.