June 3, 1938.
 
 
MEMORANDUM FOR
 
 
                THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE                
 
 
 This is a difficult letter to 
answer.  Here is a horseback thought.
 
 
 The first question for deter-
mination is this:  Is the Nuremberg
Party Rally an official government 
celebration or a Party Convention?
If the answer is that it is the
first, our Ambassador can and should
attend.  If the answer is that it 
is a Party Rally or Convention, we
come to the second point.
 
 
 We should be guided by the action
of Ambassadors in Washington.  When 
they are invited by the President or 
the State Department to an opening
of a World's Fair or the dedication 
of a monument or exercises at
Arlington Cemetery, they obviously 
accept.  But if they were invited
by the President to go to a Con-
vention of the Democratic Party or
the Republican Party, I think they