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been in 1918. If such a guarantee as this could be obtained, he said, the movement would be
 
pushed to a successful conclusion.
 
          Dr. Schacht said that he was unable to mention any names and that he felt sure I would 
 
understand the reasons therefore. He said that he had been wanting to leave Germany, in order 
 
thus more readily to further this conspiracy, and that he was going to try to persuade Hitler,
 
in his next conversation with him, to send him as Financial Adviser to the Embassy in Washington, 
 
or to permit him at least to go to Rome for the purpose of giving a series of lectures at the Royal 
 
Academy of Italy. He asked me if I could help him to secure an invitation from the Royal 
 
Academy in Rome for such a series of lectures.
 
          I said that I feared it would be very difficult for me to intervene in such a delicate matter 
 
as this, but that it seemed to me that if he could persuade Hitler to let him go as Financial Adviser 
 
to the Embassy in Washlngton, he would not have to consider the trip to Rome of which he 
 
spoke.
 
          Dr. Schacht said that another possibility was for him to be invited by some leading 
 
American university to give a series of lectures in the United States. He wanted to know whether 
 
it would be possible for him to maintain some form of contact with me after my departure from 
 
Berlin. I told him that I would be glad to receive any message that he might care to send to me, 
 
and that if he would communicate such messages as he might have in mind orally to Mr. Heath, 
 
Secretary of the American Embassy, the latter would see that they were conveyed to