Messersmith, G.S., Berlin. Despatch No. 1387 to Secretary of State [Cordell Hull], Washington.

Difficulties experienced by German government in its program to reduce unemployment through public works, chiefly a series of highways; project would provide work for only small percent of unemployed and cost would be excessive; appendix dated June 24 reports Cabinet decided to organize separate company, Government Automobile Roads, which would operate as a subsidiary of the German Government Railway Company