File No. No. 814.01B/2
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Guatemala ( Leavell)
Your July 15, 12 noon. The Government of the United States, in considering the question of enemy properties, has taken the attitude that (1) the transfer of the physical assets of German properties to [Page 367] non-enemies be free from all enemy of any character and from all obligations or contracts to enemies, and (2) the proceeds of the sale of these physical assets should be held, the ultimate disposition to be determined at the termination of the war. This is also believed to be the attitude of Great Britain and France.
Communicate this to the Government of Guatemala and also to Hodgsdon, expressing the hope that the Government of Guatemala will take a similar attitude with respect to enemy properties.