DEPARTMENT OF STATE                     
 
                                                            
 
                DIVISION OF EUROPEAN AFFAIRS                
 
                         MEMORANDUM                         
 
                                                            
March 6, 1939.
 
 
 In order to check what was said in the translation
of Chancellor Hitler's speech on January 30, 1939 which
was broadcast in the United States, I went to tne Federal
Communications Commission during the past week and tnrough
the Commission's courtesy was able to listen to a playing
of the records which had recorded the translation sent out
from Germany over short wave and received in this country.
 
 
       In the first instance it should be emphasized that 
this broadcast was not a full translation of Chancellor
Hitler's address, out was a translation of a summary or
the address. Repeatedly throughout the broadcast the German 
translator remarked "Tne Fuehrer tnen said"; "The
Fuehrer then passed to economic questions"; "The Fuehrer
then passed on to some remarks about the past war", et
cetera, these interjected phrases covering numerous paragraphs 
which had been left out of the summary. After concluding 
his remarks the German announcer stated that the
radio audience had been listening to a summary of Chancellot 
Hitler's speech which had lasted more than two and a
quarter hours; and following this, tne Mutual Broadcasting
System, which handled tne translation to which I listened,
also referred to what had been heard as an official summary. 
 
 
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