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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Secretary of State
The Yugoslav Minister called at his request. He handed me a copy of a letter which King Peter II gave to President Roosevelt on July twenty-second,11 when taking leave, with certain additional data attached, in relation to inhuman persecution of peoples in his country by the Germans and their associates. He urged most earnestly that the President issue a statement as requested in the letter he handed me. I said to him that for some time the State Department has been giving every attention to this entire question of inhuman activities on the part of Hitler throughout Europe, to say nothing of the Japanese in particular. I said we would continue our examination of this matter and that we expected to reach an early conclusion.
The Minister seemed well pleased.
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