340.1115A/622c: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Ireland (Gray)
14. London is being authorized to advise American citizens to proceed to Eire as a place of greater safety under existing circumstances. London will communicate with you and will probably indicate approximate number of evacuees. Please notify consuls and exercise agencies at your command to render assistance to evacuees that they may secure lodgings in cities or in countryside at their own expense and advise Department as to number of such persons in Eire.
Department will consider advisability of sending a ship to a west coast port with the idea of making available to them facilities direct to the United States at their own expense.
Detailed instructions will be sent in due course.