548.D1/260

The American Representative on the Committee for Refugees From Germany (Chamberlain) to the Chief of the Division of Western European Affairs (Dunn)

My Dear Mr. Dunn: I am writing for perhaps the last time in my capacity as American member of the High Commission for Refugees Coming from Germany. The High Commissioner, Mr. McDonald, has written to remind me that the Committee of Experts called by the League to study the whole problem of refugees is to meet soon in Geneva and finish its work early in December. It is expected that they will report in favor of the creation of an office for refugees. The High Commissioner would like to know whether the United States Government would be willing to consider sympathetically some form of cooperation with such an organ. I realize that it would not be possible to give a definite answer to so indefinite a proposal, but it would be a great help to the Experts’ Committee in making up their minds, and to Mr. McDonald, if you could indicate simply that the Government would be inclined to consider sympathetically proposals for continuing its interest in the problem of the refugees.

I am,

Very sincerely yours,

J. P. Chamberlain