125.0051/319: Telegram
The Minister in Switzerland (Harrison) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 13—7:37 a.m.]
994. American interests Baden Baden group. Your 318, February 6, Legation’s 902, February 9.15 Foreign Office note dated today advises Federal Political Department agrees carriage mail to and from Baden Baden by diplomatic pouch between Lisbon and Berlin. Will similarly accept and transport mail to and from German group England.
Arrangement contemplates acceptance mail Swiss Legation Lisbon transportation Bern then transportation Swiss Legation Berlin for delivery German Foreign Office which in turn will transport after censorship to Baden Baden and vice versa.
Similarly mail from German group will be delivered Swiss Legation Lisbon for transmission via Bern to Germany and vice versa.
Repeated to London.
- Neither printed. The Department’s telegram No. 318 (125.0051/269) requested that arrangements for transmission of mail to American prisoners at Baden Baden be expedited. Telegram No. 902 from Bern (125.0051/309) stated that arrangements were being made for the Swiss to transmit the mail.↩