ALH PLAIN London Dated December 27, 1941 Rec'd 12:03 p.m., Secretary of State, Washington. 6245, Twenty-seventh. Our 6216, Twenty-fourth. Following summaries German and Italian press comment Churchill's visit from digest twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth. DNB Twenty-third states: "Presence Churchill in Washington is of interest to Berlin political circles in that it represents a symptom. Wilhelmstrasse view is that the catastrophic situation in Anglo- American conduct of war has led to this meeting. Leading men of Britain and United States are forced to make decisions of important and far reaching nature to meet this catastrophic situation. Wilhelmstrasse believes Roosevelt will demand certain conditions from Churchill which clash between British and American interests. It is extremely difficult if not impossible to bring these interests under a common denominator". TRANSOCEAN twenty-third writes from Berlin: "Churchill's voyage to Washington is described by Wilhelmstrasse |