840.48 Refugees/713: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 2—12:10 p.m.]
856. From Rublee. The Argentine Government has decreed new immigration laws which come into force on October 1st. Meanwhile the Argentine Consul at Berlin has granted visas to persons totalling about 600 who have disposed of their goods. Now they are told that unless they arrive in Argentina before October 1st, which is impossible unless a special boat is chartered, they will not be admitted.
I have been asked to bring this matter to the attention of the Argentine authorities and to urge upon them a special dispensation for those persons who were granted visas before September 1st and who have made the great sacrifice required by the German authorities for emigration.
It seems to me that this is an opportunity to achieve something tangible for the Committee, and I should like you to instruct the Embassy at London to introduce me to the Argentine Chargé and to give me whatever support may be necessary at Buenos Aires.
I suggested to the British that as Winterton is Chairman of the Committee they should arrange for me to meet the Argentine Chargé but they have sidestepped my request with the suggestion that the introduction should come through the American Embassy. [Rublee.]