Lord Halifax, British Ambassador, conferred with President Roosevel at the White House yesterday. Their nik Was part of a series of confer ences which the President is holding with State Department and British officials to analyse how the latest War developments will affect the United States.
There is no indiedtion whether the President has yet reached any con clusion or decisions. He had a tele phone. talk with Mr, Cordell full, Secrelary of State, who is at present Kept away from his office by a slight mess. Afterwards the President had two telephone talks with Mr. Welles, who later visited the White House, Policies Similar Nobody who heard the statement of Mr. Sumner Welles, Under-Secretary of State, on the German at-{ack on. Russia' could doubt that, this new phase of the world confjct British and' American policies are running along parallel tines It has seldom fallen to any offtciat Washington to denounce a foreign stole In such searing terms as Mr. Welles used, Having just seen Pre sident Rodsevelt he undoubtedly spoke with the full authority of the President, and possibly in Mfr. Roosevelt'e own words, "Mr, Welles' declaration and Winston Churchill's speech made it cle here that Hiller has failed to split Government opinion in either coun try.
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