740.00112A E.W.1939/36597a: Airgram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
A–702. If such a communication has not been sent within recent months, the Department believes that a circular instruction should be sent to the missions at Stockholm, Lisbon, Madrid, Bern, Tangier and Ankara requesting them to be on the alert for any information or evidence relating to enemy attempts to secrete funds or other assets in neutral countries for safekeeping, or for other purposes, and to report all pertinent information immediately to the Department. Meanwhile the Department will appreciate receiving from you the text of any communications of this type which may have been sent by you or MEW7 and also copies of any reports which you or MEW may have received from the missions with regard to enemy attempts to place their funds in neutral territory.
- British Ministry of Economic Warfare.↩