Secretary of State
 
Washington.
 
April 29, 10 p.m.
 
 
 
Berlin, May 2, 1938
 
 
likableness, in spite of these far from endearing
qualities. The vividness of the impact of his
personality is in striking contrast with the soberness
of the impact upon a visitor of the personality of
Hitler.
 
 
 After discussion of the situation in Vienna, during
the course of which I had said that I knew him by
reputation to be a man who loved direct speech, and
in which I had done some very direct talking, he
said that he in his turn was going to do some direct
talking about HELIUM. He certainly did.
I have sent a telegram to the Department of a
part of what he said about the helium matter. I did
not, however, want to put into that kind of a paper
my impression of the depth of his resentment, the force
of the anger which he was holding in control while he
spoke to me, and the really formidable nature of our
conversation, even though, as I say, we neither of us
raised our voices or lost our tempers. This man
really believes that America must be counted among the
enemies of Germany. He says that they have controlled
their press here in spite of continuous and bitter
provocation from the American press. He said, so
discouraged were many of his friends over the relations