Office of the Historian

740.00112A E.W./9–2144: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)

Washington, September 21, 1944—9 p.m.

7706. There is quoted below for your information the text of a circular telegram which is being sent to American Missions in the European neutral countries:

[Here follows text of circular telegram of September 21, 4 p.m., printed supra.]

Please forward proposed statement to Mayer86 in Brussels for information of Belgian government.

(For Chapin.)87 You are requested to bring this proposed statement to the attention of the appropriate French officials and to express [Page 190] this Government’s hope that they will cooperate by continuing their List of External Enemies and by applying sanctions against firms wherever located which may remain on the Lists during the period following the cessation of organized resistance in Germany.

(For Schoenfeld.)88 You are requested to bring this proposed statement to the attention of the Governments in exile of the following countries: Czechoslovakia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway and Poland. The approach to the Dutch government89 should take cognizance of their black list and should follow that suggested above for the French.

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  1. Ernest de Wael Mayer, Second Secretary of Embassy in Belgium.↩
  2. Selden Chapin, Counselor of Mission at Paris. In a memorandum of October 27 by the Chief of the Division of World Trade Intelligence, it was noted that the French Government had publicly announced the intention of maintaining its list after the war. (740.00112A E.W. 1939/10–2744)↩
  3. Rudolf E. Schoenfeld, Counselor of Embassy near the Governments in Exile here listed.↩
  4. Intention of the Netherlands Government to continue its “List of Enemy Subjects” in the post-hostilities period was announced in a press release of September 26, 1944, and quoted in Netherlands series A–7, October 10, from London (740.00112A E.W./10–1044).↩