701.0090/1867a
The Secretary of State to the Spanish Ambassador (Cárdenas)
The Secretary of State presents his compliments to His Excellency the Spanish Ambassador in charge of Japanese interests in the continental United States and in reference to the Department’s memorandum of August 6, 194391 has the honor to enclose herewith a copy in duplicate of a sailing list in three parts92 naming Japanese passengers for the forthcoming voyage of the exchange ship M. V. Gripsholm, scheduled to depart from New York on September 2, 1943 for Marmagão, via Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo and Port Elizabeth.
The enclosed lists represent those Japanese repatriates departing from the United States, and do not include repatriates from other countries of this Hemisphere.
It is requested that a collective passport be issued for these people and such visas as may be necessary obtained. In view of the fact that it is inevitable that certain additions to and deletions from the passenger list will occur between the present time and the hour of sailing, it is further requested that an officer of the Spanish Embassy, or Spanish Consulate General at New York, be empowered to incorporate into the collective passport such changes as may be necessary immediately prior to the sailing of the vessel, and that the visas be of such character as to permit these changes to be valid thereunder.
- Not printed; it stated that it would be necessary to deliver to Portuguese authorities at Marmagão a properly visaed collective passport for repatriates, their individual passports, a list of other persons aboard the exchange vessel and their individual passports, and certificates of vaccination for all passengers and crew (740.00115A Pacific War/526).↩
- Not found attached to file copy of this document.↩