840.48 Refugees/4824: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 1—3:56 p.m.]
8384. The Biddle mission9 is beginning to receive from the British copies of British communications addressed to certain of the Governments in Exile asking their adherence to the proposed joint declaration to neutrals regarding repatriation of refugees. The Department has not made it entirely clear to us whether the approach is to be made by the British solely. The Biddle mission has expressed to us the [Page 228] view that the reception by the Governments in Exile might be somewhat better if a parallel approach is made by the American Government.
- Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., was accredited near the Governments of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Norway, and Poland, established in England, and Yugoslavia, established in Egypt.↩