Evening star., 1937-10-31

and AdOlpn Hitler are JUST
like that" But despite the
L 4 close friendship, their person.
alities are vastly different. fl: where
the German Fuehrer is strutter, his
Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni-
potentiary to the United States is
genial, quiet diplomat who works hard
and says little.
Ambassador Dieckhoff arrived here
In MAY straight from the top job IN
the American section of the German
foreign office. He has been diplomat
25 wears. under Kaiser Wilhelm, the
early republic, Hindenburg and Hitler.
He was liked by all his bosses, but
with Hitler he is more than popular.
He has been one of the chief formula
tors of the German foreign policy.
He is a husky, blond man OF 81,
with round Teutonic form and halr
which points toward the sky. He
smiles often, talks well and has such
social charm that i'm 1927 a hostile
London which shuddered at everything
German welcomed him to its most eX-
elusive dinners.
Encounters Reverse in U. S.
Unhappily for Ambassador Dieckhof
his few months in the United states
have been marked by serious Western
Hemisphere diplomatic reverse for
Berlin. He had hardly been here four
weeks when the State Department
reached a financial agreement With
Brazil which threatened, Germany's
towering structure of trade with that
South American country.
This was severe jolt to Berlin,
vhese statesmen had worked hard to
wean Brazilian commerce from the
United States. Ambassador Dieckhoff,
However. can hardly be blamed for the
setback. Secretary Hull is funda-
mentally opposed to the manner IN
which Germany trades, and nothing
the Ambassador could say would
change the Hull view.
Ambassador Dieckhoff is the head
man of a 60-year-old red brick en-
hassv building, and under him is a
staff of men who work, work, work
German diplomats, like German
business men, German technicians, OF
German scientists, are thorough. AND
+ = group of German diplomats IN the
United States studies the Unleeo
States through a microscope. Wneh
an airline from Newark to Miami oe-
cides to skip Washington as stop
Berlin hears about it, When the FED
oral Governments Greenbelt housing
nroiect is opened Berlin knows ano
sends a man across the ocean to LOOK
at It. All governments receive reports
from their ambassadors, put the
Dieckhoff reports are marveS ol
fminutiae.
Secretaries Share Job.
The business of telling Wilhelm
strasse about the United States Is
divided among the secretaries OF the
Embassy.
DR.. Herbert Scholz, First Secretary
and Acting Counselor, for instance
studies the culture Of our country. de
indlires into our educational processes
and educational theory. and to &C
onaint himself fully with American
pedagoguery, he travels about the
country visiting universities. He also
answers stacks of letters from Amer
icans on German culture: What of the
Hitler youth movement? What is the
real meaning of the Nazi church
stand?
FIRST Secretary Wilhelm Tannen-
berg studies the economies OF the
United States. 1t is his duty to know
every move in America which can af'
fed German trade, and that includes
the size of the long-staple cotton croI
in The Mississippi Delta, the course O
our pig iron output, the effect OF TIN
stock market wavering on the automo
bile industry and a hundred othe
,habpenings.
Has U. S. Political Expert.
Another secretary handles only
International legal problems-claim
of American citizens against Germany
divorce cases with United States-Ger
man aspects. Yet another secretar
becomes an expert on Americal
politics. The result Is that Berlil