File No. 012/16396d
The Secretary of State to the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief 1
Gentlemen: With reference to the Department’s letter to you of August 24, 1917, authorizing you to send money, subject to the observance of certain conditions and with due regard to the provisions of pending legislation, to certain destinations abroad, the Department now begs leave to inform you that this authorization has automatically become nullified through the provisions of the so-called Trading with the Enemy Act (H.R. 4960).
The Department is taking up with the War Trade Board, in which is vested the authority to grant licenses, the question of licensing your Committee to continue its work along the lines formerly indicated. Until further advised by the Department, however, you should discontinue the transmission of all lists, drafts, transfers or other communications to the destinations specified in the authorization previously accorded.
I am [etc.]
Assistant Secretary
- The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date, to the Joint Distribution Committee and the Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs. (File Nos. 012/1639a, 1639e.)↩