Office of the Historian

740.00115 European War 1939/261: Telegram

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

London, February 8, 1940—1 p.m.
[Received February 8—8:48 a.m.]

335. My 331, February 7, 7 p.m., and Berlin’s 46, February 2, 9 a.m., to London.3a It appears that the proposals contained in the Department’s telegram 1107, September 29, 5 p.m.,4 concerning the treatment of civilian enemy aliens are now being given practical effect by the British and German Governments except as concerned able-bodied men of military age. I am orally advised by a competent official of the Foreign Office that a further note accepting the proposals for the release of such men made in the Department’s telegram and in the German memorandum of October 14 (Berlin’s 1727, October 16, 5 p.m.)5 is in course of preparation.

Johnson
  1. For the latter, see telegram of February 2, 10 p.m., from the Chargé in the United Kingdom, p. 187.↩
  2. Foreign Relations, 1939, vol. i, p. 641.↩
  3. See telegram No. 1272, October 19, 1939, 2 p.m., to the Ambassador in France, ibid., p. 642.↩