840.48 Refugees/4–345: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Sweden ( Johnson )
646. The following for Johnson and Olsen from Department and War Refugee Board is WRB 344, and refers to your numbers 1186 of March 28 and 1235 of April 3.62
Report forwarded in your 1186 greatly appreciated.
Department and Board approve the continuation of discussions designed solely to save the lives of Jews and other victims of enemy oppression by means of relief supplies or evacuation to safety. However, such discussions should be severed immediately if, in the opinion of Minister Johnson, they become political in nature.
Board and Department leave entirely to discretion of Minister Johnson the question of continuing the indirect contacts already made and the question of Storch’s going to Berlin.
- Latter not printed.↩