June 7, 1938.
 
 
My dear Mr.President:
 
 
 With reference to your memorandum of June 3 with
which you sent me a letter you had received from Hugh
Wilson under date of May 12, the Secretary and I are
entirely in accord with the views expressed in your
memorandum.
 
 
 You say in the first paragraph of your memorandum,
"The first question for determination is this: Is the
Nuremberg Party Rally an official government celebra-
tion or a Party Convention? If the answer is that it
is the first, our Ambassador can and should attend,"
 
 
 In determining the question whether the Nuremberg
Party Rally is an official government celebration, the
following facts appear to be established. Last Septem-
ber 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
transmitted through the German Foreign Office. As a
matter of interest in this connection, the conference