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                    DEPARTMENT OF STATE                     
 
                 Memorandum of Conversation                 
 
 
DATE:
 
December 22, 1938.
 
SUBJECT: Germany.
 
 
PARTICIPANTS: Major Percy Black, U.S.A.
 
Mr. Pierrepont Moffat, Chief,                       
Division of European Affairs.
 
 
Major Percy Black, U.S.A., Assistant Military Attache 
in Berlin called. He reported that he had every reason to
believe that Germany would start moving again in the early 
Spring. He knew as a fact that certain key reserve officers 
and certain transport bodi es had received orders to hold 
themselves in readiness as of January 20. (Curiously
enough this date coincided closely with the time Ambassador 
Kennedy had told him the British regarded as the end of the 
safe era). He thought that the move would be eastward this 
time though he was indefinite in his opinions as to just 
where it would strike. He felt that Danzig would be absorbed 
without difficulty and likewise Memel. He thought that 
ultimately the Polish Corridor would be solved, -not by 
granting Germany an autobahn across the Polish