380.1115/17b: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Turns (Doolittle)
11. 1. As a provisional measure and to mitigate human suffering in areas where abnormal conditions obtain, you are authorized effective September 1, 1943, to extend financial assistance to American nationals within your district able to qualify under the terms of Department’s instruction 1202 to Legation Bern18 (see Diplomatic Serial 3451, February 17, 1942 copy of which Consulate General Algiers is being requested by telegraph to send you). You should follow that instruction so far as it is adaptable to territory within your district no longer in enemy hands.
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6. You should, of course, reduce financial assistance to such extent as it may be supplanted by United Nations’ or other general relief measures applicable to inhabitants of your district. Moreover, it is contemplated that financial assistance will terminate upon reestablishment of normal channels of communication and commercial banking facilities for transactions in foreign exchange. You should advise Department periodically with respect to continued necessity of financial assistance.