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Handsome Dr. Hans Thomsen, Nazi charge d'affaires, and his staff were put up at The White to get them out of Washington, keep them in seclusion until they are returned to Germany. They had scarcely gone when FBI men moved into the German Embassy, discovered there a powerful short-wave radio station which had been sending messages in code...
Then, as the Post-Dispatch's Marquis W. Childs reported last week, the State Department restrained the FBI from moving in. The gumshoes, it was thought, might upset negotiations with Germany for safe exchange of diplomatic personnel. But when Germany's Hans Thomsen and friends departed to take a little rest in West Virginia, the transmitter stopped. To the Post-Dispatch story, FCC last week added two definitive points: 1) every message sent had been decoded; 2) the Embassy sender had been neatly jammed the moment it started sending messages...
...when German Chargé d'Affaires Hans Thomsen slipped out of his embassy to deliver Germany's declaration to Secretary Hull. When the Secretary did come, Dr. Thomsen was told that he was "engaged." Finally Dr. Thomsen delivered his note to the Chief of the European Division, went glumly back to the ramshackle old red-brick Embassy...
...then the chill set in. He was met at Washington by no one of first importance, and the presence of Counselor of the German Embassy Dr. Hans Thomsen at Union Station did not help. That very day (it was the 2,601st anniversary of the Japanese Empire) President Roosevelt, in a press conference, said that war with Japan would not affect deliveries to Great Britain. Admiral Nomura's first call on Secretary of State Cordell Hull lasted only four minutes; it was an all-time quickie. President Roosevelt was a little more cordial. The Admiral told reporters that...
...place once occupied by Soviet Ambassador Constantine Oumansky among the diplomatic outcasts of Washington. Oumansky, though diplomatically shunned for two years, was nevertheless personally popular, bore up well. Henry-Haye, natu rally affable, is desolately lonely-next to Germany's handsome Chargé d'Affaires, Dr. Hans Thomsen, is probably the loneliest man in boom-packed Washington...