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June 16, 1934.
 
 
AMEMBASSY
 
 
BERLIN (GERMANY)
 
 
Please take the earliest occasion to see Von
 
Neurath or a ranking official, in the Foreign Office
 
and state orally that you have been instructed by your 
 
Government to protest energetically end formally against 
 
the recent summary independent action of Germany in 
 
respect to he: external debts, which seriously affects
 
our Government and its nationals. The American Govern-
 
ment takes occasion to express its strongest regret.
 
that new losses are thereby imposed on American citizens,
 
and that debtor-creditor relationships have been further
 
impaired.
 
 
I purpose to inform the press on Monday off the
 
general tenor of the foregoing.
 
 
In regard to the question of discrimination against
 
American investors that has been brought to the front
 
by the developments mentioned in your ll2, of June 16,
 
please state to the German Government that this Govern-
 
ment would view with disapproval, any and all develop-
 
ments in this situation under which its investors
 
 
receive
 
 
 
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