125.0062/299: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Germany (Morris)
1734. Your 2443, June 19, 7 p.m. Please address a note as follows to the German Minister for Foreign Affairs:
“Under instructions from my Government, I have the honor to advise you as follows in reply to the Ministry’s note of June 19, 1941: The Government of the United States of America categorically rejects the allegations that American consular officials have been guilty of improper activities or that they have acted in a manner incompatible with their duties.
“With respect to the request made in the note under reference, my Government is giving appropriate instructions to effect the withdrawal by July 15, 1941 of all American officers and all American [Page 632] employees of the consular establishments in the German Reich and in Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, the occupied parts of France, Yugoslavia, and in the parts of Greece under occupation by the German armed forces.”