840.48 Refugees/4104a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
Washington, July 30,
1943—4 p.m.
4579. At the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees to be held in London on August 4, 1943, the Department desires that you:
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- Recommend that Sir Herbert Emerson continue as the Director of the Executive Committee.
- 2.
- Recommend that Mr. Patrick Malin, an American citizen, be named as Vice-Director of the Executive Committee.
- 3.
- Recommend that the Secretary of the Executive Committee be a national of one of the member-Governments other than Great Britain or the United States.
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- Vote for a revised mandate as recommended in the report of the Bermuda Conference.
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- Recommend that all projects and the financing thereof be considered individually and the American and British Governments consulted before any favorable decision is taken thereon, in view of the agreement of those Governments to underwrite the expenses of the Committee’s operations.
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- Endorse such recommendations for financing as may be made which will cause the other member-Governments to contribute for individual projects, and recommend that the administrative expenses of the Executive Committee be shared equally by the various countries represented.
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- Recommend that the headquarters of the Intergovernmental Committee be continued in London.
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- Recommend that the specific duties of the Intergovernmental Committee as differentiated from the duties of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration be determined.
Hull