Ambassadors Hugh R. Wilson and William Phillips came here this evening to confer with President Roosevelt on persecution of Jews and other minorities in Germany and Italy and related questions. Mr. Wilson had been ordered home from Berlin for “consultation and report,” and the conference was later broadened to include the Ambassador to Rome.
Mr. Wilson, it was announced in Washington yesterday by Acting Secretary of State. Summer Welles, will remain in this country indefinitely as consultant to the State Department on German-American relations. The length of his stay, Mr. Welles said, is up to the President. Thus, it was confirmed that Ambassador Wilson had been virtually recalled as a rebuke to persecution of Jews in the Reich. Reports from Berlin said that Hans H. Dieckhoff, Ambassador to the United States, would remain in Germany as long as Mr. Wilson stayed here.
Mr. Wilson arrived in New York on Friday, conferred briefly with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who was departing for Lima to attend the Pan-American Conference, then proceeded to Washington to report to Mr. Welles and other State Department officials. Mr. Wilson, before leaving Washington for Warm Springs, declined to make any statement on his return until he had seen the President.
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