840.48 Refugees/4772: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
7519. There is considerable publicity being given to the legislation referred to in your 7970, November 162 and because of the very active popular demand for information as to concrete results obtained by the Intergovernmental Committee for saving the Jews from Hitler, the Department desires to make public immediately information concerning (1) the revised mandate as proposed by the Bermuda Conference and (2) the opening of the center in North Africa for persons who escape from Nazi persecution.
[Page 226]The Department believes it would be desirable for such release to be issued by the Intergovernmental Committee and you are requested to ask the British for their immediate concurrence and request the Intergovernmental Committee to make immediate announcement telegraphing text and proposed date of communiqué.
- Not printed; it mentioned a news item which referred to a joint resolution of Democratic and Republican members of Congress, introduced in both Houses, recommending the creation by President Roosevelt of a commission of diplomatic, economic, and military experts to formulate a program to save the surviving Jews of Europe from extinction by Hitler.↩