ALH                                           PLAIN
 
                                             London
 
                                             Dated December 27, 1941 
 
                                             Rec'd 12:03 p.m.,
 
Secretary of State,
 
     Washington.
 
     6245, Twenty-seventh.
 
     Our 6216, Twenty-fourth.
 
     Following summaries German and Italian press
 
comment Churchill's visit from digest twenty-fifth and
 
twenty-sixth.
 
     DNB Twenty-third states: "Presence Churchill
 
in Washington is of interest to Berlin political
 
circles in that it represents a symptom.  Wilhelmstrasse
 
view is that the catastrophic situation in Anglo-
 
American conduct of war has led to this meeting.
 
Leading men of Britain and United States are forced
 
to make decisions of important and far reaching nature
 
to meet this catastrophic situation.  Wilhelmstrasse
 
believes Roosevelt will demand certain conditions
 
from Churchill which clash between British and 
 
American interests.  It is extremely difficult if not
 
impossible to bring these interests under a common
 
denominator".
 
     TRANSOCEAN twenty-third writes from Berlin:
 
"Churchill's voyage to Washington is described by
 
                                                 Wilhelmstrasse