701.0090/1628: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Harrison)
Washington, June 18,
1943.
1441. American interests—Far East—repatriation. Your 3560, June 13.
- 1.
- By its 1333 of June 4 Department indicated its wishes with respect to allocation of space to those to be repatriated in forthcoming exchange according to directives given in its 1311 of June 2.
- 2.
- Please request Swiss Government in so informing its representatives in Far East to endeavor to arrange for Swiss Minister at Tokyo to correlate action of all Swiss representatives in Far East so that these directives may be uniformly carried out.
- 3.
- Department is fully conscious of the difficulties presented and hopes that the Swiss representatives in the Far East will, with the information regarding individual cases which they already have in hand, be able to make appropriate adjustments to give effect to Department’s directives and wishes referred to in paragraph 1 above without there being caused delay in effecting the exchange.
Hull