Office of the Historian

840.48 Refugees/2063: Telegram

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

London, February 17, 1940—3 p.m.
[Received February 17—10:56 a.m.]

408. Winterton believes that a full meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee should be held during the spring or early summer. The Foreign Office is in tentative agreement but before taking any final decision Winterton wishes to obtain Mr. Taylor’s47 views as to a convenient time and place. Winterton believes that the French will be agreeable to having the meeting held at the Quai d’Orsay and is writing to Mr. Taylor at Rome suggesting that the meeting be held in Paris at a date convenient to him. It is believed that he has in mind merely an annual meeting to discuss such progress as has been made and that no important new proposals are contemplated.

Repeated to Rome for Mr. Taylor and Mr. Moffat.48

Johnson
  1. Myron Taylor, personal representative of President Roosevelt to Pope Pius XII and United States representative on the Intergovernmental Committee.↩
  2. Mr. Moffat was instructed to sail for Europe on February 17.↩