840.48 Refugees/1659: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy)
Washington, June 8, 1939—5
p.m.
420. For Pell. The Joint Distribution Committee in New York requests the Department to ask you to confer in London with Baerwald and to assist him if possible to make arrangements for the admission into England, France or some western European country of 907 refugees on board St. Louis now proceeding to Europe. Negotiations with Cuba have ended in flat refusal to allow refugees to land.
Hull