840.48 Refugees/4830a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
7287. Will you advise the Department in response to no. 6009, September 29, what action the Intergovernmental Committee may have taken. If no action has been taken please urge that the decision be made favorable to the proposal.
For your information Department has this afternoon conferred with Dr. Goldmann and Rabbi Miller in connection with projects under that program.
Department has committed itself to support an application to the Treasury for the issuance of a license for $250,000 to be held in Switzerland as a contingent reserve for emergency purposes and to be expended for payment for the cost of projects approved by the International Red Cross and authorized by the Intergovernmental Committee and to be expended in case official contributions from the British and American Governments are not available.