June 14, 1937

Dear David O.

I mas terribly sorry to learn just now from your brother Thomas that your leg had been giving you further trouble. I do hope you

are taking care of it to make. Be sure that you will not have to go limping about in more or less discomfort for a long time to come.

. . .

The German authorities have, I am very sure, kept all of the bad of Kaiserism (probably jettisoning much of the good); at any rate, they seem to have kept their criminal methods. President Grant and I both feel that in view of this fact we ought not to send Thomas to the German Mission, but rather to the Swiss-Aug-trian Mission. I have spoken to Thomas about it, and he says he would rather prefer to go to the latter place instead of to Germany.