The Archive · 1940

Herr Hitler Telephones Duce

Over Welles Mission — Fuehrer Returns to Berlin; German Press Mention U.S. Initiative Without Comment

Berlin, Feb, 13.

Bees impending visit of the United States Under-Secretary. of State, Mr. Sumner Welles, to European capitals was the subject of an exchange of views between Rome and Berlin in the course. of the week-end, it was reliably learned here last night, Herr Adolf Hitler spoke with Signor Benito Mussolini by telephone and the Italian and German Foreign Offices were also in contact on Saturday and Sunday. President Roosevelt's move was still the leading subject under discussion' at the Foreign Office here yesterday, although no statement of o! ficial attitude has yet been made available.—United Press, Herr Hitler Returns to Berlin Amsterdam, Feb. 13.

Herr Hitler has now returned to the Chancellery in Berlin, from "somewhere in Germany."

The Fuehrer, it is reported, is "continuing to examine the situation."

News of the proposed journey to Europe of Mr. Sumner Welles, United States' Under-Secretary of State, was allowed to appear in the German press for the first time yesterday, In all German papers reaching Holland the news was given in a single paragraph of five lines, well Britain's Army Chieis Decorated By General Gamelin hidden and without comment. tiolland Angry at General Gamelin, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Force, recently decorated Lord Gort, sridish German propagandists apparently Commander-in-Chief, and General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief-of-Staf with the Insignia of the

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