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Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, by Mr. George L. Brandt, Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State (Long)
[Washington,] March 27, 1943.
Dr. Feer of the Swiss Legation telephoned me at 10 o’clock this morning to tell me that the following message has been received by the Legation from the Swiss Foreign Office at Bern:
“Swiss Legation, Berlin, informs that German Government has made all necessary preparation for exchange of American Tuck group Baden Baden. Therefore German Government anxious to know American reaction to exchange proposed.”