251.11 Insull, Samuel/517: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Turkey (Skinner)
35. Your 34, April 7, 11 a.m. The Export Line management will issue instructions to the master of the vessel to lend Berry43 all proper aid and assistance in carrying out his task. The Line has also agreed to inform the Department immediately if the ship is obliged to call at any foreign ports en route from Marmaris to New York, but in order that there may be no oversight Berry also should advise the Department by telegraph in order that unmolested passage may be obtained.
In view of the prisoner’s age and his reported physical condition, the Department wishes to have him treated with all proper consideration. It leaves to Berry, in consultation with the master of the vessel, the decision as to where the prisoner should be placed to prevent escape and to safeguard him from self-inflicted harm, but it is suggested that he might appropriately be placed in the ship’s hospital.
In the event of any untoward developments Berry will of course inform the Department immediately by telegraph and upon approaching [Page 582] New York he will advise the Department of the approximate date and hour of the vessel’s arrival in order that the necessary arrangements may be made.
Now that definite arrangements have been made for the prisoner to embark at Izmir it is assumed that you have informed the consular officers at Beirut and Jerusalem and the Legation at Cairo that they may cancel whatever arrangements have been made for the prisoner’s passage through their jurisdictions.
- Burton Y. Berry, Third Secretary of Embassy in Turkey.↩