853B.20/67: Telegram
The Minister in Portugal ( Fish ) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 24—2:11 p.m.]
1426. Department’s 1331, October 9, midnight. Consultation with Douglass who has just arrived from Horta reveals that the American citizens residing normally in the interior of Fayal Island who were the subject of section b of the Department’s telegram under reference are to his knowledge without exception dual nationality cases. He is sure that this is substantially true in the other islands. If the Department as its instructions of August 24, 194225 (130–Alves, Jose) would indicate does not favor representations for the release of such persons from obligations to the country of their residence I do not feel that the Legation can logically protest when the Portuguese authorities ask such persons, for reasons of military security, to alter their place of residence.
The Legation has reopened with the Foreign Office the general question of the restrictions established in the Azores and has communicated our Government’s desires as instructed but has not pressed the point mentioned above for the reasons indicated.
[No further correspondence on this subject has been found in Department files.]
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