English Translation

OV The Head of the Judicial Group I 9 a 11153. Prague, 22 December 1941 Ur s e r i f t l i c h +# on Mr Under-Secretary of State Mr State Secretary ${^{3} 881/12 im - Ha u s e s e definitly returned. The decree on the treatment of hostile assets of 15 January 1940 - RGBl.I p.191 - has not yet been extended to American assets. It is to be heard that the measures taken by the United States in respect of German assets are to be awaited, and the seizure of the former French embassy under the said regulation is therefore not currently considered and has not taken place from here either. Whether a confiscation has been decreed, for example, on the basis of the provisions against enemies of the state with the aim of confiscating in favor of the empire, is not known here. By the way, I do not have an application from the former French legation as an American agent, so that it is still necessary to examine whether the legation is actually to be regarded as US-American property. Morcasaco St. S.1F-3a/41