840.48 Refugees/929a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy)
710. For Rublee. The Secretary today made the following announcement at his press conference:
“The President has asked Mr. Myron Taylor to go again to London as the representative of the Government of the United States to meet with his colleagues of the Intergovernmental Committee on Political Refugees in the near future. Mr. Taylor plans to sail on November 26.
The developments of the last few days in Germany have redoubled the urgency of finding new homes for hundreds of thousands of persons. This Government is already granting admission to these unfortunates to the full extent permitted by law. I am confident that these latest developments have brought home to those in authority in many other governments a vivid realization of the need for finding a solution of this problem, which can only be solved by all governments actively participating in the search for its solution.
The Director of the Intergovernmental Committee, Mr. George Rublee, has for some time been prepared to go to Berlin in an attempt to work out with the competent authorities of the German Government practical measures for the solution of the problems involved. Although the German Government was advised some weeks ago by the diplomatic representatives in Berlin of several of the members of the Intergovernmental Committee that Mr. Rublee was prepared to discuss these questions at the convenience of the German Government, no definite reply has yet been received.”