Editorial Note

In the weeks following the Trident Conference further discussions took place on refugee questions, and on July 9, 1943, Roosevelt informed Hull that he had approved and sent to Churchill a message prepared by the Department of State on the subject. This message proposed the transfer of some five or six thousand refugees from Spain to French North Africa and then to places of “more permanent settlement for the duration” of the war, with their continued care thereafter to be under the auspices and jurisdiction of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees. Churchill agreed to this proposal on July 10. See Foreign Relations, 1943, vol. I, pp. 322324. For subsequent developments, see ibid., pp. 324 ff.