Washington, July 23.
'The official Government spokesman Jdeclined to comment on the rejection fof Chancellor 'Adolf Hitler's "appeal fo reason" by the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, Inst night, but high' Administration' circles obviously greeted the statement with These circles do not believe that conditions are now existing which Would facilitate a peace satisfactory to the Democracies.
Informed sources were keenly i terested in Lord Halifax's references to the altitude of the United States toward Germany, which they inter~ Dreted as signifying Britain's great Gependence on the moral sympathy [and support of the United States.
Lord: Halifax's reference to plural) rations beyond the seas who are opposed to Herr Hitler's political philo-Jsophy, was seen as an attempt to enfeompass the entire Western Heini. phere in the anti-Nazi camp—United Press,
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