 In the wake of the confusion the West German foreign office sent Oskar Schlitter, who also had a knowledge of agriculture along with his pre-war experience as a commercial attaché.Schlitter, accompanied by his distractingly glamorous wife, was nevertheless not the colleague his fellow West German diplomats in London had been expecting to welcome as their new chargé d'affaires.On 20 December 1954 the West German embassy held a Christmas party for embassy staff and their guests.