701.0090/2744
The Department of State to the Swiss Legation
The Department of State would greatly appreciate it if the Swiss Legation would transmit to Mr. Robert Scherer, the Swiss Delegate on the M. S. Gripsholm, a message for Mr. Donald W. Smith, the Disbursing Officer of the Department of State on the vessel, that the Department of State approves his recommendation that pecuniary advances up to $100 be made to the passengers on board the Gripsholm but wishes the advances held, so far as he and Mr. Langdon deem feasible, to the original proposed amount of $50 until the vessel calls at Port Elizabeth where numerous of the passengers will receive [Page 942] additional funds from sources on shore. Mr. Smith should take particular note that the Department desires separate notes executed for any amounts paid in excess of $50 to any individual and that opportunity should be given individuals who have received funds from him to repay their notes and have them canceled if they receive adequate funds from sources ashore at Port Elizabeth or at Rio de Janeiro.59
- In a memorandum of October 26, the Swiss Legation notified the Department that the contents of its message had been transmitted to Mr. Scherer (701.0090/2955).↩