The Intergovernmental meeting concluded its sessions on February 13 1939.   
Thereafter I brought to the attention of the Jewish societies and to a group  
of leaders, including Anthony Rothschild, Lord Bearstead and others, the   
importance of promptly acting, first, on the suggestion of the third trustee   
for the internal German Trust, and second, the formation of a plan to create  
an outside corporation or foundation to carry out in both instances the terms  
of the German unilateral proposals first porposed by Schacht, later modified  
by Wohlthat. I believe it best for many reasons to characterize as German   
proposals the memorandum which, while it contains many of the points that   
the committee had evolved at and and since Evian, is not, of cqurse, an   
Inter-Governmental Committee proposal. Embarrassment might ultimately flow   
from it if it were so styled.
 
 
 
On arrival in Paris on February 16th, I conferred with Ambassador Bullitt  
and gave him in detail all events and memoranda affecting refugees, so that  
he would be able intelligently to discuss the matter when and as occasion   
required. I then left for Florence.
 
 
 
From Florence I telephoned Ambassador Phillips that I would come to Rome  
Thursday, February 25d, to discuss the refugee situation with him, and   
suggested that if' he thought well of it, it might be advisable first to   
visit Mussolini together and to acquaint him with preliminaries of the   
present German situation, and, if the opportunity occurred, to express to   
him the hope that in view of the progress made with Germany, he might find   
it possible to postpone the date of exodus in Italy from March 12th for a   
period of six-months or a year, giving those affected a better opportunity   
to locate elsewhere and the avoiding of a revival of a general world   
discussion on the subject, with its possible inJurious effect on the German  
refugee situation, which, in its present early stages under the memorandum,   
might be seriously impaired if the subject were renewed in a world-wide   
sense.
 
 
 
For his further information, I submitted to him, first, a copy of Sir   
Andrew MacFadden's report on the Italian situation; second, a copy of a   
memorandum which had been prepared by the Jewish leaders in London and Paris;  
third, a copy of Sir Herbert Emerson's ,memorandum regarding settlement   
projects; and fourth, minutes of the Inter-Governmental Committee which   
contained the Gernan memorandum, of which memoramndum he kept a copy. This   
will be helpful to him in the discussions which may take place with Italian  
officials.