701.0090/156: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery)51
Washington, June 19, 1942.
1589. Department’s circular telegram June 1. M. S. Gripsholm sailed from New York at 11:22 p.m. June 18 bound for Lourenço Marques via Rio de Janeiro. Schedule of Gripsholm given in Department’s circular telegram under reference should be altered accordingly.
Please request that sufficient guards be on hand when vessel docks to prevent Japanese from leaving ship. Department expects you to have 403 (four hundred three) passengers for Gripsholm.
Hull
- Similar telegrams, excluding last paragraph, were sent on June 18 (circular) to the Embassies in the Soviet Union, China, and the United Kingdom; also on June 18 (circular) to the Embassies in Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru, and Cuba, and the Legations in Haiti, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador; and on June 19 to the Legation in Switzerland (No. 1590) with instruction to inform all Axis Governments.↩