701.0090/1867
The Spanish Embassy to the Department of State
No. 228
Ex. 108.03
The Spanish Embassy presents its compliments to the Department of State and in answer to the Department’s memorandum of July 27th ultimo regarding the exchange of sick Japanese and American nationals who are to make the trip on the second exchange vessel, begs [Page 910] to transcribe the reply given by the Japanese Government to the inquiry of July 28th on the matter, which says as follows:
“Memorandum—August 20, 1943—The Japanese Government requests that the American Government be informed as follows:
- 1.
- That the internees who are ill, but who are able to make the trip be embarked on the Gripsholm and those unable to do so, be repatriated on one of the next exchange vessels.
- 2.
- That for the proper accommodation on the Japanese exchange vessel, it is necessary to telegraph the names, sex, ages, and the nature of the illness of those to be embarked.
- 3.
- The Japanese Government will embark on the second exchange vessel three doctors and eight nurses for the care of the sick Americans to be repatriated, expecting that the American Government will take the same measures on behalf of the sick Japanese to sail on the Gripsholm.
“The Japanese Government would like to be urgently informed on the point of view of the American Government on the matter.”