File No. 362.11/5334
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland ( Stovall)
2019. Your 3499, May 29, 2 p.m. Your action regarding Corpl. Edward Roberts approved. Request Spanish Embassy, Berlin, to take similar steps in case of Thomas McCarthy at Guestrow in order [Page 80] that he may undergo operation at home to save his sight. Report result. Further request Spanish Embassy to ascertain whether German Government would be disposed to enter into a provisional reciprocal agreement regarding repatriation or neutral internment of invalid prisoners, final agreement to be concluded at the conference between American and German delegates which this Government proposed to the German Government through Madrid on May 15, no reply to this proposal having yet been received in Washington.