Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1933, Volume II, “The Consul General at Berlin (Messersmith) to the Acting Secretary of State, No. 1428”
“I have gone into the activities of the Society and of its agents, and have read some of the pamphlets which have been distributed by the Society widely in Germany, and I can see that objection could reasonably be raised to them by the German Government. Although acting as a religious society, the pamphlets contain comment of not a purely religious character.”
Messersmith's own assessment, sent to Washington three weeks after the Berlin convention. A separate telegram of the same month states that the Embassy and Consulate General “have considered it impossible to object to ban on activities”.
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Provenance and verification note for Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1933, Volume II, The Consul General at Berlin (Messersmith) to the Acting Secretary of State, No. 1428
Confidence note. Opened on the US Department of State Office of the Historian site on 19 September 2026 and read in full; the companion telegram is document 287 in the same volume.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-de33-frus-consulate-view