should clearly find it impossible to
attend.  It is true that Ambassadors
in Washington often go to party con-
ventions but they go without in-
vitation from the President, the
Secretary of State or even the Chair-
man of the national party.  They go
merely as voluntary spectators looking
for fun or fireworks, or because it
is socially "the thing to do."  In
any of these cases they go in their 
private capacities and not as 
Ambassadors.
 
 
 What do you think I should
reply?
 
 
F.D.R.
 
 
Letter from Hugh R. Wilson, Berlin.