Evening star., 1939-11-24
U. 5. Unlikely 10 Send
Envoy 10 Germany,
High Officials Say
Recent Manifestations
Of Roosevelt Since
War Began Cited
By the Associated Press.

1t is now year since the United
States and Germany withdrew their
respective Ambassadors, but feeling
in the administration continues such
that, high officials say, there Is not
the slightest intentionso sending an
Ambassador to Berlin.
1t would be logical to send an Am
bassador to Berlin at this time be-
cause of the greatly added work
thrust on the Embassy by the neces-
sity for protecting the interests in
Germany of Great Britain, France,
Canada, Australia and New Zealand,
which we have agreed to do. Hence
the fact that no Ambassador is going
to Berlin further accentuates the
attitude of the administration.
Last November Ambassador Hugh
r. Wilson was called back by Presi-
dent Roosevelt for report and con-
sultation. Then he resigned in pro-
test when German troops invaded
Poland, and the post of Ambassador
in Berlin is now vacant.
Roosevelts Actions Cited.
Mr.. Wilson's resignation was de-
scribed as purely personal express
sion of feeling, but look at these
manifestations of the administra-
tlon's attitude since the war began
/. Mr.. Roosevelt inferentially
branded Germany as the aggressoI
by speaking of her invasion OF
Poland.
2. Secretary of State Hull an
nounced the Governments refusal to
recognize the conquest of Poland by
Germany and Russia.
8. The administration fought for
the lifting of the arms embargo,
which admittedly will help Britain
and France and not Germany.
4. The President sent no telegram
of congratulations to Chancellor
Hitler over the German leader
escape from attempted assassination
at Munich two weeks ago.
S. Mr.. Roosevelt Jumped all Ger
many's acquisitions of the past sew
eral years-Poland, -Slovakia,
Memel and Austria-together with
Germany on the United States eco
nomic blacklist. He spoke of them
as being solely under Germany's "de
facto administrative CONTROL in
dicating he did not believe Hitler
had them for all time to come. Con-
firmation of this is the fact the
United States has not asked Ger
many to assume Poland's and
Czecho-Slovakia's debts to the
United States as we did in the case
of Austria. The Polish Ambassador
and the Czech Minister continue to
have full diplomatic status here.
Duties of Patrol.
6. One of the chief duties of the
neutrality zone patrol so far has
been to look into a series of reports
that ships, sailing from United
States ports, would refuel German
submarines. Obviously the patrol
does not intend to permit this to
happen.
The problems outstanding between
the American and German gov
ernments before the war-Austria' S
debts, discrimination against Amer
lean Jews in Germany, transfer of
inheritances and Jewish refugees
have Of course moved farther away
rather than nearer to a solution
since the conflict began.
Alexander c. Kirk, American
Charge d'Affaires in Berlin, will have
to carry on as best he can without
an Ambassador. He will be given
all the increased assistance he needs
for his added problems. But the
sending back of an Ambassador
might be interpreted by the world
as change in this governments
attitude toward Hitler's actions,
and there has been no change of
feeling on the part of the admin
istration.