340.1115A/2548a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Harrison)
923. Department’s 886, April 8, 6 p.m.76 Drottningholm expected to sail tomorrow, 14th, from Göteborg. Department having received no refusal to the suggestions made in its telegram under reference assumes that the German Government will have no objection to the repatriation on the Drottningholm of Americans stranded in Sweden and Finland, and is consequently advising Legation Stockholm that they may board the vessel for voyage to the United States. The departure of the vessel is being delayed 24 hours in order to permit their evacuation and embarkation.
[Page 357]Please request that this information be urgently conveyed to the German Government as an assumption on the part of the United States that there has been no objection made by the German Government to the proposal of the United States Government and a further assumption that Americans desiring repatriation and presently in Sweden and Finland are assimilated to Americans in southern Europe whose departure on the vessel has been agreed to by the Axis powers, those persons in Sweden and Finland being unable to reach Lisbon and apply for evacuation on subsequent voyages of the Drottningholm from that port.
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