701.0090/1616½
The Spanish Embassy to the Department of State
No. 117
The Spanish Embassy presents its compliments to the Department of State and has the honor to acknowledge receipt of its Memorandum of May 26th, relative to the preparation of lists of the Japanese Nationals who are to be repatriated on the next exchange vessel.
The Spanish Embassy has advised the Japanese Government through the Foreign Office in Madrid, that the American Government is agreeable that the exchange take place at Marmagão in Portuguese India, and that the vessel to be used for the exchange is to be the Swedish Motorship Gripsholm.
With regard to the “70 additional persons to be repatriated from the United States” the Japanese Government has answered that such a list is being prepared and will be cabled as soon as possible.
The list of the “ten international merchants from Peru and Bolivia” was sent by this Embassy to the Department of State, as annex to Memorandum No. 114 of May 26th.28
The list of the “70 (76) diplomats and international merchants from Chile” was sent with this Embassy’s Memorandum No. 113 of the same date29 to the Department of State.
Regarding the list of “60 Japanese from Canada” the Japanese Government is at present conferring with the Spanish Consul in Montreal and the names of these will be communicated by cable to this Embassy for transmittal to the Department of State.
The Spanish Embassy would further inform the State Department that the Japanese Government wishes that the “25 Japanese resident in Mexico” be embarked on the second exchange vessel, and whose names will be communicated telegraphically to this Embassy as soon as the Japanese Government receives a reply to the questions it has directed to the Portuguese Representative in Mexico in charge of Japanese Interests in that country.
The Japanese Government also wishes that on the second exchange vessel be embarked certain Thailandese (Siamese) residing in the [Page 878] United States (number not mentioned) whose names will be transmitted telegraphically once the Japanese Government arrives at an agreement with the Government of Thai.30
With the above mentioned Memorandum of the Department of State dated May 26th, was included a list of the Japanese nationals whose addresses are incomplete. The Spanish Embassy would appreciate that the Department of State advise whether it wishes this list communicated to the Japanese Government, informing them that there is no trace of their being in the United States, or asking whether, prior to the commencement of hostilities, these Japanese nationals might have already departed for Japan.