Evening star. [volume], October 31, 1937, Page A-15, Image 15

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HANS HEINRICH DIECKHOFF.
The fifth of a series of articles
dealing with diplomatic representa
tives to the United States whose
countries are affected by troubles in
• Europe or the Far East.
By BLAIR BOLLES.
Hans heinrich dieckhoff
and Adolph Hitler are "just
like that.” But despite the
close friendship, their person
alities are vastly different, where
the German Fuehrer is a strutter, his
Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni
potentiary to the United States is a
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 a diplomat j
i 55 years, 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 52,
With a round Teutonic form and hair j
which points toward the sky. He
smiles often, talks well and has such
social charm that inr' 1927 a hostile .
London which shuddered at everything ;
German welcomed him to its most ex- j
elusive dinners.
» Encounters Reverse in U. S.
Unhappily for Ambassador Dieekhoff
his few months in the United States
have been marked by a 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 a severe jolt to Berlin,
whose statesmen had worked hard to
wean Brazilian commerce from the
United States. Ambassador Dieekhoff,
■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 Dieekhoff is the head
man of a 60-year-old red brick em
bassy building, and under him is a
staff of men who work, work, work.
German diplomats, like German
business men, German technicians, or
German scientists, are thorough. And
c * group of German diplomat? in the
United States studies the United
States through a microscope. When
an airline from Newark to Miami de
cides to skip Washington as a stop,
Berlin hears about it, When the Fed
eral Government’s Greenbelt housing
project is opened Berlin knows and
Ffnds a man across the ocean to-look
at it. All governments receive reports
from their ambassadors, but the
Dieekhoff reports are marvels of
♦ minutiae.
Secretaries Share Job.
The business of telling Wilhelm
Btrasse about the United States is
divided among the secretaries of the
Embassy.
Dr. Herbert Seholz, First Secretary
and Acting Counselor, for instance,
studies the culture of our country. He
inquires into our educational processes
and educational theory, and to ac
quaint 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
at and?
j>lrst Secretary Wilhelm Tannen
befg studies the economics of the
United States. It is his duty to know
ev*y move in America which can af
fect German trade, and that inclines
thi size of the long-staple cotton crop
in the Mississippi Delta, the course of
out pig iron output, the effect of the
Btotk market wavering on the automo
bile industry and a hundred other
^ happenings.
* Has U. S. Political Expert.
Another secretary handles only
international legal problems—claims
of American citizens agaihst Germany,
divorce cases with United States-Ger
man aspects. Yet another secretary
becomes an expert on American
politics. The result is that Berlin
knows what the United States is eat
ing for breakfast., paying for at the
theater, whom it is likely to put into
public office and whether ladies are
wearing their finger nails this year
cerise or raspberry.
All this technical work is co
ordinated by the Counselor, who must
be a ready fount of information for
the Ambassador. If Ambassador
Dieckhoff asks Dr. Scholz the value
of this country's February coffee im
ports^ from Brazil, Dr. Scholz, who
already has had it from Herr Tannen
berg, furnishes the answer on the spot.
Ambassador Dieckhoff himself is
asked few questions by the foreign
office on Wilhelmstrasse. An ambas
sador prides himself on keeping his
country so well informed about the
land to which he is accredited that
there is no need for queries.
He was born in Strasburg, in Alsace,
in 1884. Alsace now is part of
Fiance, but the Ambassador loves, the
territory and his home is as close to
it as possible—in the Black Forest of
Germany across the Rhine.
The Ambassador wanted to be a
lawyer. He studied at the universities
of Lausanne. Munich, Berlin, Stras
burg and Oxford. By 1906 he was a
doctor of civil law. Then came six
years of intensive legal study to fit ]
him for the bench." At last In 1912
he passed his final examination. He
was a prospect for a judgeship.
Attracted by Diplomacy.
But strangely, after all this work to
become a judge, he decided to enter
the foreign service. He had a liking
for diplomacy during his last years
of judicial study, which were spent
at the imperial German law courts in
Tstagtao, German territory in China.
Ambassador Dieckhoff's foreign
service career has been active. His
first post was Morocco, when he was
taken by a French man o’ war in 1914.
He was let ashore at Palermo, Italy,
and from there he made his way to
Germany.
He fought on the World War eastern
front with a troop of Uhlans until ill
health in 1916 brought an end to his
military history. He was sent to Con
stantinople by the foreign office, and
there he married the daughter of a
German engineer. From Constanti
nople to Berlin to Chile to Peru. In
1922 h?>was here as counselor of the
embassy. In 1927 he was sent to
London as counselor. In 1930 he
went back to the foreign office In
Berlin.
Herr Dieckhoff like* golf and he
like* walking. He live* at 2928
Massachusetts avenue, about 15 blocks
from the Embassy. He strolls from
home to office every morning.
PARALYZED BY PRANK
Halloween Roughness S Hears
Ago Still Prevents Walking.
HATTIESBURG, Miss., Oct. 30
(/P).—Two years ago tomorrow Mary
Belle Broome, 16, was partly paralysed
by a Halloween prank, a blow across
her back with a board.
Last Halloween eve* Mary Belle wrote
a public appeal to young people to
eliminate roughness from their cele
bration. Officers here said they noted
a widespread response. She renewed
the appeal today.
Mary Belle has improved, but ■till
is unable to walk. Interested in arts,
I she draws and paints.
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