June 10, 1938
 
 
My dear Hugh:
 
 
 The question raised in your letter to me of May 12
is an important one. If the Nazi Party Congress in
Nuremberg can be properly regarded as merely a political
party meeting, such as the Democratic or Republican
National Conventions in the United States, it seems
quite clear that you should not attend the meeting.
 
 
 However, the State Department tells me that last
September the formal invitation to the diplomatic corps
in Berlin to attend the Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg
was issued by the Chancellor of the German Reich and
was transmitted through the German Foreign Office, and
that, with the exception of four chiefs of mission (of
whom only two failed to attend because of political con-
siderations), all of the chiefs of mission were present.
I am further informed that for internal purposes the
Nazi Party and the State in Germany are one by-virtue
of the law of December 1, 1933, which provides that
"the National-Socialist Labor Party has become the organ
of the State policy and is indissolubly united with the
State.".
 
 
 In view of these facts, it would seem to be deftnitely established that the Nazi Party Congress is an
official Government celebration. If you coincide in
this interpretation and if you are officially invited,
I think you should attend.
 
 
I think you are doing very well In very difficult
times.
 
 
Believe me 
 
 
Yours very sincerly,