840.48 Refugees/4816a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
7526. From Long. We are confronted here by a serious internal pressure based on humanitarian impulse and surrounded with doubt, uncertainty and suspicion on the part of high officials and a large part of the public including groups naturally interested on account of race and religion. We have been unable to satisfy them that the Department has taken adequate steps to achieve their natural desires. The prohibition upon publication or even use of the deliberations of the Bermuda Conference and the program of the Intergovernmental Committee prevent the Department from enlightening this large and important section of our people as to the efforts made and being made to alleviate distress and persecution.
Under these circumstances it becomes urgently necessary to use the material disclosing our activities and efforts.
Resolutions are in the House and Senate4 which require recognition and response.
I am sure you will understand our predicament and this will urge you to present it urgently to Law and to the Intergovernmental Committee and such others as may be necessary to consent to our use of these facts immediately.
Of course they may simultaneously use it there or even make a statement of their own in advance but the consent to our use here is a matter of serious moment.
Please do what you can as quickly as possible and advise at the earliest moment because the House Committee5 is about to take action and the Senate Committee6 has it under immediate consideration. [Long.]
- H. Res. 350 and H. Res. 352, providing for the establishment by the Executive of a commission to effectuate the rescue of the Jewish people of Europe; S. Res. 203, favoring the appointment of a commission to formulate a plan to save the Jews of Europe from extinction by Nazi Germany.↩
- House Committee on Foreign Affairs.↩
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.↩