DEPARTMENT OF STATE                     
 
                                                            
 
                 Memorandum of Conversation                 
 
 
COPY FOR THE PRESIDENT                              DATE:  July 31, 1941      
 
 
PARTICIPANTS:
 
Dr. Maurice Hochschild,
 
A. A. Berle, Jr.
 
 
 
 
Dr. Maurice Hochschild, who is one of the co-owners of the 
Bolivian tin mines and a resident of South America, 
came in to see me at my request. He stated that there is 
now in Rio a German lawyer, Dr. Fenthol, sent by the 
German I. G. Farden Industrie to attempt to purchase the 
Standard Oil interests of Hungary for twenty-four million 
dollars cash.
 
 
Conversing with Hochschild, Fenthol said that he had
a second job besides the one for which he was sent.
 
 
He represented General Von Stulpnagel (?), who is
the commander of the German forces in occupied France. 
This General and a number of other officers in the 
German Army had formed a group known as the "Friends
 
 
of