Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-12-21 | Page 2 | Hull Admits Withdrawal of Three Officials

Hull ull Admits Withdrawal Of Three Officials WASHINGTON Dec 21 INS Secretary of State Cordell Hull Saturday acknowledged that two o officers and one woman of the American embassy at Paris a ar are being bein withdrawn w at the re request request re- re quest q est of f Germany The three are Cecil M. M P. P Cross first secretary Leigh W. W Hunt second secretary and Mrs Elizabath Elizabeth Elizabeth Eliza Eliza- beth bath Deegan receptionist clerk who was detained by the Germans for several days recently on the charge of abetting the escape of British prisoners Secretary Hull explained that any government has the right without setting forth any grounds to request the withdrawal of another another another an an- other governments government's representatives tives from its from its territory Hull sai said that he is making no confession so far as the charge is concerned but admitted it il would be investigated He added he was under the impression nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing will be developed to prove any guilt by the three Americans I