File No. 355.11/690
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Spain ( Willard)
584. It appears from your 641, June 28, 11 a.m., that German Government is under the impression that German women and children only are permitted to leave the United States. Request Foreign Office to instruct Spanish Ambassador at Berlin to state to German Government that this is not the fact; that German women and children up to 14 years of age are under no restrictions as to departure, and that German males 14 years old and over may also leave if applications which they are required to make are acted upon favorably. Such applications have been freely granted until recently, but are now temporarily held up pending a statement from the German Government as to their attitude towards the departure of Americans from Germany and proofs that those Americans who wish to leave are not being unduly detained by German authorities.