1943 January 24 The possibility of a public statement from the Vatican moves German Foreign Secretary Joachim von Ribbentrop to wire von Weizsacker, "Should the Vatican either politically or propagandistically oppose Germany, it should be made unmistakably clear that worsening of relations between Germany and the Vatican would not at all have an adverse effect on Germany alone. On the contrary, the German government would have sufficient effective propaganda material as well as retaliatory measures at its disposal to counteract each attempted move by the Vatican."