Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Supplement 2, The World War

File No. 763.72114/2732

The Minister in Switzerland ( Stovall) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Berne, June 16, 1917, 10 a.m.
[Received June 17, 7.30 a.m.]

2055. Your 616, May 29. Organization completed as outlined my 991, June 2. Name “American Prisoners Central Committee.”¹ Suggest that instructions be issued to all officers and men, military and naval, sent abroad, in case of capture immediately to communicate with committee here.

Stovall

1. After amalgamation with the Red Cross, the name of the organization was changed, in August, to “American Red Cross–Central Committee for American Prisoners.”