840.48 Refugees/1636a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy)
383. For Pell from Myron Taylor. I feel that we can now assume that the Foundation will be established early in June and that its establishment should be followed very shortly by a meeting first of the officers and second of the whole Committee. In particular it appears desirable to hold these meetings while Wohlthat is still in London and while the Directors of the Foundation are also there in order to establish direct contact between the two.
Our information is that the occasion for Wohlthat’s visit to London will be fixed for June 13 or shortly thereafter. The President has asked me to return to London to assist in the completion of these plans. Accordingly, I expect to sail on the Normandie on June 14 spending two days in Paris and reaching London June 21.52 I would suggest that the meeting of the officers be held on the 26th and the meeting of the full Committee on the 27th. If the other officers of the Committee are agreeable to these dates I propose to give on the evening of June 27th a dinner to which I would be glad to have you invite on my behalf the officers and members of the Committee, Mr. Kennedy and the other Chiefs of the Diplomatic Missions in London of the countries represented, Lord Halifax, Mr. Baldwin, and perhaps the Prime Minister, Mr. Wohlthat and the German Ambassador, such of the Directors of the Foundation as may be in London and others who were invited to the last dinner. I hope to leave London on June 29th and after a brief visit to Florence to sail back on the Normandie July 5th.
I have consulted State Department which approves the foregoing.
This telegram was prepared before the receipt of your 723, May 22, 6 p.m.53 Its substance will enable you to answer Winterton’s queries. [Myron Taylor.]