Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1944, General, Volume I

740.00116 European War/10–644

The Chargé to the Czechoslovak Government in Exile (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State

London, October 6, 1944.
[Received October 14.]

Sir: In continuation of my telegram No. 17 and despatch No. 189 of October 2, 1944³⁹ reporting the willingness of the Czechoslovak Government to associate itself with a possible declaration by the United Nations warning Germany against a reported plan to exterminate the inmates of certain prison camps, I have the honor to transmit a copy of a note of October 4, 1944⁴⁰ from Mr. Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovak Minister of Foreign Affairs, in which he quotes a telegram which he has received on this subject from the World Jewish Congress in New York. On behalf of his Government, Mr. Masaryk also asks the United States Government to consider whether there is any possibility of assisting the internees whose lives are evidently in extreme danger, and adds that he is also approaching the Governments of Great Britain and the Soviet Union on this subject.

Respectfully yours,

Rudolf E. Schoenfeld

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