 Ordered back to Bonn by Secretary of state Carstens, on 19 July 1963 Schlitter explained to the US embassy official, Coburn Kidd, that Josip Broz Tito, the Yugoslav leader, had not been entitled to expect new West German credit guarantees or discussion of global restitution issues dating back to the war in the context of trade negotiations.On simple humanitarian grounds, however, the government was prepared to increase damages payments for victims of pseudo-medical scientific experiments.In February 1964, Schlitter was appointed West German to Athens.