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DEPENDS ON HITLERS REPLY WASHINGTON, D. C, April 25 Friday, j the day Chancellor Adolf Hitler replies to President Roosevelts request for a German- Italian guarantee of a ten-year peace in ; Europe, will be the deciding factor in Americas relations with the Reich, official quarters said today. If Hitlers reply is "satisfactory" and there is a sincere recognition by Germany of the territorial sanctity of the thirty-one neighbors of the Reich cited in the Roosevelt message, the American government will probably return Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson to Berlin". If, on the other hand, Hitlers reply is belligerent and derisive and he fails to give guarantee against further aggression, Wilson may never return to Berlin and the future of German-American diplomatic relations will appear even more uncertain than in the past six months. Hope has been expressed in administration circles that the Fuehrer will take the opportunity to, make it possible to repair the widening diplomatic breach which during the winter has approached a state of actual rupture of relations. Wilson was summoned home six months ago in protest of Nazi persecution of racial and religious minorities in Germany. Germany also called home its American ambassador.
