811.504 Mexico/8–1144: Airgram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Mexico (Messersmith)
A–1916. Reference is made to the Department’s instruction 5591 of April 20, 1944 and to other communications regarding the assignment of Mexican agricultural workers under the 75,000 quota to various States which have solicited their services.
[Page 1321]The Department has now received a communication, dated August 3, 1944,20 from the War Food Administrator, asking that the approval of the Mexican Government be requested for the employment of Mexican agricultural workers in the following additional States: Indiana, Illinois, Mississippi and Missouri. The States under reference have agreed that they will not request that any authority be delegated to them in connection with the administration of workers brought in, and the Administrator assures the Department, for the information of the Mexican Government, that workers assigned to these four States will be under the jurisdiction of the War Food Administration, as provided in the revised agreement of April 26, 1943.
The Administrator has requested that the securing of approval be expedited as much as possible in view of the fact that the workers are already needed to assist in the harvest of important crops.
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