Evening star., 1940-03-04
u. S.-kozi Differences
May Be Ironed Out

u. S.-Nozi Differences
May Be Ironed Out
BERLIN, March 4 (P.-Sumner
Welles left for Paris last night after
a farewell from DR.. Hans Dieckhoff
recalled German Ambassador to the
United States, which aroused specu-
lation as to whether they might
have ironed out the question of rep
resentation between the two coun-
tries.
DR.. Dieckhoff, who has remained
here since November, 1898, when
the American Ambassador was
called home from Berlin to report
on the anti-Jewish campaign, ap-
peared with other officials at the
blacked-out Anhalter Station to bid
Mr.. Welles fareWell-after being
conspicuous by his absence at Mr..
Welles' arrival Friday.
Protocol calls for a diplomat &C
credited to another country, but
temporarily at home, to greet ar
irving diplomats from that country.
Besides Dr. Dieckhoff, Germans
who went to the station to bid Mr..
Welles farewell included Baron
Ernst Won Weizsaecker, state Sec
retary in the foreign Office, and
Baron Alexander Won Doernberg,
chief of protocol.
Absence of Enyoy Reyretted
Quarters close to the German for
eign Office have said that Foreign
Minister Joachim Won Ribbentrop
particularly regretted the absence
of an American Ambassador from
Berlin at this time.
In Mr.. Welles talks with Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler, Ribbentrop, Deputy
Party Leader Rudolf Hess and Field
Marshal Goering the question of a
possible improvement of relations
between Germany and the United
States was said to have revolved
around the question of return of
Ambassadors to Washington and
Berlin.
Mr.. Welles wound up his fact
seeking stay in Germany yesterday
with conferences with Goering and
Hess.
The conference with the portly
Goering at Karin Hall, the number
two Nazi's wooded country estate
north of Berlin, was as hedged by
official silence as his Saturdays talk
with Hitler, but it seemed certain
the American envoy again was told
of German confidence in military
and economic power to attain vic
tory.
Apparently Goering had plenty to
tell Mr.. Welles about German au-
tarchy, in which he plays prime
role as director of the four year plan
for economic self -suff1ciency, as we'll
as the air force which he built up as
Germanys air minister.
Three Hours at Karin Hall.
Accompanied by United States
Charge d'Affaires Alexander Kirk,
Mr.. Welles was kept at Karin Hall
more than three hours and stayed for
luncheon. which had not been
planned originally.
Playing the generous host, Goering
chatted with the Americans in his
study, guided them around his coun-
try residence in its woodland setting
and showed his collection of weap-
ons, paintings and sculptures.
When they departed they in
scribed their names in Goering's s
guest book.
Prior to seeing the field marshal
Mr.. Welles paid a courtesy call or
Hess, Hitler's deputy in all party
matters, and stayed to talk with him
an hour
Mr.. Welles' visit to Hess was re-
rarded as courtesy gesture to the
Reich's home front and was under
stood to have been suggested by
Germans.
Through German eyes 1t con-
stituted the first official American
recognition that, to use Hitlers own
words. ut is not the state which
commands the party, but the party
which commands the state"
Clarified Position Of Party.
Hess took occasion, according to
authorized sources, Ito clear up any
mistaken notions about the Naz1
party, its tenets and its functions
In the state"
The Na1 view was that Mr.. Welles
previous knowledge of Naziism hat
come only from other persons, many
OF them prejudiced, and that nov
he should learn the truth" at first
hand.
It was understood Hess tried t.
interpret Naziism in democratic
terms, claiming it is the real expires
sion of democracy in that under tn
leadership principle career is opel
to the poorest as well as the wealth
lest. The deputy Nazi leader argued
these sources said, that Naziisn
came to power at the will of the peo
pie and that referenda since ha
proved the people still stand behin'
the movement.
Mr.. Welles arranged to go directl
to Lausanne ito do nothing bu
sleep, sleep, Sleep" as one membe
of his party put it, commenting Of
the strenuousness Of the stay in Ber
lin.
Elaborating on the thesis of per
manent hegemony over Bohemia
Moravia, Slovakia. Poland an,
Hungary, Germans asserted thi
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