Representative Emanuel Celler (Dem., N.Y.), Maurice Bisgyer, secretary of B’nai B’rith, and Rabbi Abram Simon conferred today with President Roosevelt while Secretary Cordell Hull told a press conference the State Department was studying the Austro-German situation.
President Roosevelt informed the delegation he would send a special message to the B’nai B’rith convention to be held in Washington in May. The delegation would not divulge the reason for the conference.
(B’nai B’rith lodges in Austria have been dissolved, according to reports today, with ten of its employes arrested on charges of contributing to the Schuschnigg regime.)
While the Reich took over the Austrian Legation here, its staff remaining in absence of other instructions, Secretary Hull declared the State Department was giving close attention to all phases of the Austro-German situation and studying carefully the question of including Austria in trade agreements. Austria until now has been given favored-nation treatment, from which Germany has been barred.
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