840.48 Refugees/655: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in the United Kingdom ( Johnson )
476. For Taylor and Rublee. Your 753, August 12, 4 p.m. A preliminary report from Norweb19 states that, while the Dominican Government [Page 774] is keenly anxious to secure “easily assimilable neo-white” agricultural colonists from Porto Rico or other nearby areas, the type of refugees for whom relief is sought, who come principally from urban centers, is the type least desired by the Dominican Government. He feels that the Dominican offer is simply a gesture and that it should not be taken at its face value. A copy of his report is being forwarded by mail.
- Despatch No. 416, August 20, from the Minister in the Dominican Republic, not printed.↩