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Dr. Thomsen handed me an aide memoire, which reads as follows:
 
 
              
       "In reply to your communication to Ambassador        
 
                 Dleckhoff concerning, the treatment of inhe
 
                 claims of American citizens to the estates 
 
                  sons deceased in Germany, I am in a positi
 
                  state that all inheritance credits of this
 
                  reciprocity provided, will be transferred 
 
                          beneficiaries in full extent."    
 
                                                            
I stated to the German Charge d'Affaires that I assumeed 
and gathered from the text of the communication he had 
given me that the assurances so provided related to all 
American citizens without distinction. The Charge d'Affaires 
replied that my understanding was correct.
 
 
The Charge d'Affaires concluded the interview by stating 
that he believed Ambassador Dieckhoff's conversations 
in Germany would be useful. He stated that he believed 
his Government was beginning to understand that the 
Government of the United States would not agree to any 
discrimination between American citizens in Germany.
He stated that he thought it was useful, for this Government 
to continue "to affirm that position".
 
 
I thanked the Charge d'Affaires for the communication he had 
made to me and for the interest which Ambassador Dieekhoff 
and he had taken in this question. I said I hoped the assurances 
given would prove to be the forerunners of other more general 
assurances to the effect that the rights of all American 
citizens in Germany without distinction would be scrupulously 
observed.