840.48 Refugees/4058: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 24—12:35 a.m.]
4811. Reference Embassy’s 4810, July 23, 9 p.m. I offer the following comments regarding the proposals in connection with the forthcoming August 4 meeting of the Executive Committee on refugees:
In the matter of a French representative, I find Lord Winterton fully agreeable to pragmatic solution of the question (if the status of the French National Committee of Liberation is not fixed within the next few days) on the basis of the selection, by joint agreement of all parties concerned, of a name which Winterton might announce to the meeting convening on August 4 as having already been agreed upon for the choice of a person to serve as French representative. May I suggest to the Department the desirability of speedily obtaining approval for such a nomination in order that the Executive Committee may be relieved of the necessity of discussing the problem?
With reference to the Department’s proposal contained in airgram 791, June 7, 6 p.m., on a proposed joint declaration relating to the repatriation of refugees, and the Embassy’s telegram 4661, July 17, 4 p.m.,62 relating thereto, Randall stated today that the Foreign Secretary had signed a note to me accepting the Department’s proposal for a joint declaration and asking that the British Government be informed when an approach pursuant thereto is to be made by the American Ambassador at Kuibyshev in order that the British Ambassador may be instructed to take similar action. The note has not yet been received by the Embassy, but Randall’s statement about it is here mentioned for the Department’s information in connection with the subject of the present telegram.
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