840.48 Refugees/2071b: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in the Dominican Republic (Hinkle)
Washington, February 6, 1940—3 p.m.
12. Please convey the following message to Mr. James N. Rosenberg:
The President has received your telegram46 and is highly gratified to learn of the happy conclusion of your arrangements with the Dominican Government looking toward the settlement of refugees. The success of this venture will augur well for a gradual and progressive solution of this great humanitarian problem.
Hull
- Telegram from Ciudad Trujillo, January 30, 1940, 1:43 p.m., in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, N. Y. It reported that a highly satisfactory settlement contract had been signed that morning with the Dominican Government and that Generalissimo Trujillo had been very cooperative, contributing personally a large tract with adequate facilities for the settlement, and promising to recommend early repeal of discriminatory legislation.↩