Office of the Historian

840.48 Refugees/4935: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)

Washington, January 4, 1944.

53. Concerning IGC mandate referred to in your 9111 December 31, Department accepts statement prepared by Emerson. However if statement is published inclusion of last sentence might raise new controversy and it seems preferable to omit it. At present we have no intention to publish Emerson’s statement but we may desire to do so at any time omitting last sentence.26 There is no objection here if statement is published in London.

Hull
  1. Telegram No. 135, January 6, 1944, from the Ambassador in the United Kingdom indicated that there was no objection to publishing Emerson’s statement in the United States, omitting the last sentence (840.48 Refugees/4962).↩