740.58112A/180: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
4348. Names of Swedish firms mentioned in your telegram no. 4303 of May 2751 will be included in June 2 supplement to Proclaimed List.52
Department agrees that special announcement of proposed addition of Swedish names to Proclaimed List is not wise unless names of important firms are included.
If list of substantial Swedish firms engaging in trade with Axis to unusual extent includes any having American affiliates, subsidiaries, or connections inclusion of such Swedish firms would be particularly effective.
[Page 172]Department believes that recommendations should also be forwarded for persons who have been notoriously pro-Nazi in their sympathies and activities without particular concern as to their vulnerability from an economic sanction point of view. This category would include:
- (1)
- Printers and publishers of Nazi propaganda;
- (2)
- persons prominent in public life who have utilized their profession to disseminate Nazi propaganda (excepting cases where you feel that listing would result in serious adverse political effects upon our relations with the Swedish Government);
- (3)
- prominent businessmen who have been openly pro-Nazi;
- (4)
- any newspapers or other publications known to be Axis subsidized.
In preparing recommendations Stockholm may find it helpful to refer to the memoranda prepared for the Black List Committee in London which was sent to Stockholm under cover of letter dated February 8, 1943 from Matthews of the Embassy at London to the Minister.
Sent to London, repeated to Stockholm.53