MEMORANDUM OF THE CONVERSATION WITH             
         REICH MINISTER OF PROPOGANDA DR. GOEBBELS.         
 
 
 Dr. Goebbels received me in his office at the Reichs
Propoganda Ministerium at 1:00 o'clock on March 22.
 
 He began the conversation by stating that he was
very glad to meet me, as he had wanted for a considerable 
period to talk over matters with an American
representative, that he was not at all satisfied with
the press relations between the two countries.  He
said that he thoroughly understood the limitations 
upon the activity of our Government in its relations 
with the free press; that he had called in men from 
the Foreign Office who knew America, in order to learn
about this, and that he thought he thoroughly understood.
There was obviously little that the Government could
do in the matter of our press.  Nevertheless it was
lamentable that this campaign of hatred should be
carried on.  He did not in any way expect that Germany
would escape criticism, that it would escape misunderstanding, 
-- indeed, it was inconceivable to him that
writers in America should be sympathetic with presentday 
Germany because of the complete contrast of method 
by which the Government was acting.  What he did not
expect and what he deeply deplored, were wilfull
misstatements of fact, and slander and libel against
the persons of the Reich Chancelor and those immediately
around him.  He said that the person of the Fuhrer was
venerated by every German.  Indeed, he was going to
use a word that would astonish my foreign ears, and