840.48 Refugees/1476: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in the United Kingdom (Johnson)
185. For Pell. Your 153, March 4, 1 p.m., Berlin, paragraph 2. It is believed that you have all the information available to the Department on existing rates of immigration into and settlement possibilities in other countries. Reports are expected by the middle of April from the two missions which have been sent to study the possibilities of refugee colonization in the Dominican Republic and British Guiana. A similar mission is now being organized to go to Mindanao.
The following figures for immigration into the United States from Germany are based on statistics compiled by the Immigration and Naturalization Service: [Page 98]
- (a)
- Persons admitted into the United States from Germany for permanent residence during the calendar year 1938: 28,316;
- (b)
- Persons under (a) who stated that they were of the Hebrew race: 23,775;
- (c)
- Of the persons under (b) 7,303 were males between 15 and 45 and 3,328 were single females between the ages of 15 and 45.
The foregoing information is for very discreet use and not for general dissemination.