740.00112A European War, 1939/21360e: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Winant )

6043. British Embassy here has advised Department that Netherlands Government proposes to publish a blacklist of its own in the near future and that the Netherland authorities may shortly suggest their being represented on Proclaimed List Committee. Department has had no word of these developments from other sources and requests any information on it available to you. Tentatively we can see no need for the publication of another list and we believe it would [Page 301] be impossible, for various reasons, to extend further representation on the Proclaimed List Committee.

Please telegraph your and MEW’s views and whether British authorities have considered attempting to dissuade Dutch from this step.

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