840.48 Refugees/2125: Telegram
The Consul General at Florence (Putnam) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 7—2:18 p.m.]
4. For the President from Myron Taylor.
“Referring to suggestion of meeting of Intergovernmental International Committee, after considering present uncertainties it might be advisable to hold a meeting of officers similar to Washington meeting at Brussels or even Paris at end of month. Full reports of past months and of present situation could be presented by Emerson and others, the full committee being promptly thereafter circularized with copies of proceedings. This would avoid bringing together at this moment so large a body and avoid possible extension of the field of discussion for which no adequate preparation could be reasonably foreseen. A meeting of the full committee at a later date could be forecast in the minutes of the proceedings. I am sending copy of this message to Achilles for his information. [Taylor.] “61
- In a letter of May 8 transmitting this telegram to President Roosevelt, Under Secretary of State Welles approved the suggestion for a meeting of the officers of the Intergovernmental Committee and suggested that it be held late in June and that the meeting place should be Dublin (840.48 Refugees/2133a).↩