840.48 Refugees/6226: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
4753. From War Refugee Board. Agreement of British Government, in reference your 4556 of June 7, to establishment of refugee camp in Tripolitania capable of accommodating between 1,000 and 1,500 persons gratifying to Board. Foreign Office should be apprized of Board’s appreciation.
British suggestions concerning practical measures required for joint establishment of refugee camp in Tripolitania now awaited by Board. We shall be advised in near future, we assume, of the precise [Page 1071] location of the proposed camp, also given a detailed description of the necessary procedure and time required to place the camp in condition to receive refugees.
One possibility relative to the question of administrative and medical personnel is, as in the case of Camp Lyautey, to ask UNRRA to administer the camp. We shall be glad to approach representatives of UNRRA in Washington on this matter if it is acceptable to the British.
The question of havens is particularly urgent at present due to the large numbers of refugees arriving daily in southern Italy from Yugoslavia. The Tripolitania refugee project will develop with maximum speed, it is therefore hoped. Quick furnishing of the above requested details should be urged upon the British.80 [War Refugee Board.]
- Neither of the proposed camps, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, was actually established.↩