852.48/1472: Telegram
The Ambassador in Spain (Hayes) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 2—11:15 a.m.]
793. So far as we know all local orders to return newly arrived refugees to France have been canceled. Confidentially informed Foreign Office has sent German Embassy note placing responsibility for keeping refugees from crossing border on the Germans. In reply to German claim that refugees are extraditable Foreign Office maintained since Germany carrying on total war refugees entitled to treatment as escaped prisoners of war.
Thus while it appears refugees reaching Spain will not be returned I have received no assurance that new arrivals will be allowed to continue their journey to other countries.
Your 730, March 31, 6 p.m., repeated to Algiers.