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138 Emergency Program/759a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Harrison)

Washington, March 25, 1940—5 p.m.

27. With reference to the Department’s telegrams of November 17, 6 p.m. and November 22, 6 p.m., 1939,4 the Department desires that no passport be validated for the journey through the combat zone of the North Atlantic en route to the United States without permission being first obtained from the Department.

Please so inform offices in Europe.

Hull
  1. Foreign Relations, 1939, vol. i, pp. 706 and 709, respectively.↩