840.48 Refugees/1027a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy)
732. For Rublee. Confirming our telephone conversation this morning, the plan you outlined for Pell’s trip to Brussels seems for the first time to hold out hope for some constructive solution. As we understand it, Pell will not undertake any negotiation, but will merely be the agent through whom the German plan will be submitted, in order that it may be studied by the executive committee of the Refugee body in London. Inasmuch as this plan will undoubtedly not be presented in writing, we submit the suggestion that Pell may wish to be accompanied by a highly trained financial technician (perhaps loaned by the British Treasury) to make certain that the financial features are explained without possible ambiguity and in such detail as to facilitate their study in London.
We are impressed with the need for absolute secrecy which will be scrupulously observed in Washington.