Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1935, General, The Near East and Africa, Volume I

548.F1/19

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

No. 3970

Bern, July 22, 1935.
[Received July 30.]

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith Circular Letter No. 111 addressed to you on July 19, 1935 by the Secretary General of the League of Nations, requesting information regarding the possibility of settling refugees in the United States. Any information which the Secretary General receives will be transmitted to the Nansen International Office.

Respectfully yours,

For the Minister:

Stanley Hawks

Secretary of Legation

[Enclosure]

Circular Letter by the Secretary General of the League of Nations (Avenol)

No. C.L.111.1935.XII.

Russian, Armenian, Assyrian, Assyro-Chaldean and Turkish Refugees: Settlement of Such Refugees in Oversea Countries

The Secretary-General has the honour to draw the attention of the Government of the United States to the report of the Inter-Governmental Advisory Commission for Refugees on the work of its seventh session (document C.137.M.71.1935 XII) and to the report submitted to the Council (eighty-sixth session) on this subject by the representative of Mexico (document C.200.1935.XII). Acting upon the recommendations of the Inter-Governmental Advisory Commission, the Council of the League of Nations instructed the Secretary-General to inform the Governments of the countries concerned of the keen desire expressed by the Inter-Governmental Commission and the Assembly of the League—which made known its views on this subject at its fifteenth session—that the various Governments should communicate to the Nansen International Office information regarding the possibility of settling refugees in the territory of the United States.

The Secretary-General will duly transmit any information on this subject which he may receive from the Government of the United States to the Nansen International Office.

Geneva, July 19, 1935.