English Translation

20A
enter
United Kingdom
We certand dor's wans hin
Political Representative,
C.9VE.
1 e tud heve.
20 o
BABS
1945.
3
My
Jack.
dear
C
4.12
; Washington telegram No. 7708 of 17th
November.
I know Count Ferdinand Gzernin slightly.
He was one of the more lighthearted members of
Austrian society and used to visit Vienna occasion-
ally when I was here before the war. I
He wrote
quite an amusing book on the Salzburg Festival but,
unless he has changed very much, he is not the sort
of man who would play a political role here. I
fancy that his chief reason in wanting to return
is to see in what shape the family possessions are.
In short I think that the State Department's
decision is based on social rather than political
reasons.
2.
I rather-think that he has been in the
United States since the Anschluss and I never heard
of his engaging in Nazi activities. Unless, there-
fore, the security authorities in London have some-
thing against him, there seems no objection to the
issue of a U.K. transit visa to him.
Yours ever,
Wstskack
J.M. Troutbeck Esq., ClG,
The Foreign Office,
London, S.W. 1.
W.H.B.Mack.