Secretary of State Washington. April 29, 10 p.m. Berlin, May 2, 1938 likableness, in spite of these far from endearing qualities. The vividness of the impact of his personality is in striking contrast with the soberness of the impact upon a visitor of the personality of Hitler. After discussion of the situation in Vienna, during the course of which I had said that I knew him by reputation to be a man who loved direct speech, and in which I had done some very direct talking, he said that he in his turn was going to do some direct talking about HELIUM. He certainly did. I have sent a telegram to the Department of a part of what he said about the helium matter. I did not, however, want to put into that kind of a paper my impression of the depth of his resentment, the force of the anger which he was holding in control while he spoke to me, and the really formidable nature of our conversation, even though, as I say, we neither of us raised our voices or lost our tempers. This man really believes that America must be counted among the enemies of Germany. He says that they have controlled their press here in spite of continuous and bitter provocation from the American press. He said, so discouraged were many of his friends over the relations |