Such developments made it clear that he (=Klemperer) would not be able to fulfill his obligations as a musical director of the Berlin Philharmonic Chorus, and he accordingly proposed to Furtwängler that these should for the time being be assumed by the Swiss conductor Ernest Ansermet. The suggestion was well calculated to discomfit the German authorities: the presence in Berlin of a conductor celebrated for his championship of Stravinsky and other "decadent" composers would hardly have been welcome to the new regime, yet an open rejection of a distinguished Swiss conductor would have been embarrassing at a time when the regime was concerned to foster cultural relations with the outside world. Furtwängler seems to nipped the proposal in the bud. But Klemperer persisted
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On 14 May (1933) the Chorus loyally telegraphed verse greetings to Klemperer on his forty-eighth birthday. In less polished metres, he replied "Grüsse gerne alle Damen. Wünsche Ansermet" ("Greetings to all the ladies. I would like Ansermet"). After the Ansermet project had come to nothing, Klemperer offered the position to Eugen Jochum, who declined on the grounds that "the composition" of the Chorus (i.e. its predominantly Jewish membership) might cause him difficulties at the Berlin Radio, where he was musical director. The task was eventually assumed by Carl Schuricht.