711.62114 Sick/12–3044: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Switzerland (Huddle)
4410. Please request Swiss Foreign Office to transmit following message to German Government regarding forthcoming prisoner of war exchange:
“Canadian hospital ship Letitia will be employed in forthcoming exchange to carry from New York to Marseille approximately 577 sick and wounded prisoners of war from Canada and the United States.
After disembarkation of repatriates at Marseille the Letitia will carry repatriates to United Kingdom or otherwise continue its activities as a hospital ship.”
[For additional data concerning the combined exchange of American and German nationals (Gripsholm voyage of January–February 1945), see Department of State Bulletin, January 7, 1945, page 44; ibid., February 11, 1945, page 196; and ibid., February 18, 1945, page 252.]