840.48 Refugees/1610: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy)
361. For Pell. Your 654, May 10, 4 p.m. In connection with Winterton’s statement that “in accordance with the discussions which had taken place with the United States Government in the autumn the Guiana project should be financed in the United States” the record should be kept clear that there were no such discussions with this Government and no such understanding. Our files indicate no reference to this matter other than Rothschild’s statement to Rublee (telegram 1416, December 9, 4 p.m.49) that a substantial part of the money would have to come from the Jews in the United States. The record does not disclose any statement concerning this matter by this Government or by the interested organizations in this country. Those organizations were prepared to bear a considerable part of the expense but certainly not all of it.
For background:
When the question of sending a mission from this Government to British Guiana arose, the private organizations concerned were reluctant to undertake the expense of sending a mission because, in view of the British attitude with respect to Palestine, they anticipated that even in the face of a favorable report the British Government would restrict immigration into British Guiana to negligible numbers.