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840.48 Refugees/1402: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in the United Kingdom ( Johnson )

Washington , February 11, 1939—3 p.m.

116. For Myron Taylor. Your 198, February 10, 1 p.m. As in the case of the Sudetens, we are reluctant to see the Committee’s problem increased but, also as in the case of the Sudetens, the Poles in question are unquestionably involuntary emigrants from Germany and thus appear to come within the Committee’s competence.

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