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From: Madrid (FIRTHI)
To: Vichy (president LAVAL)
24 June 1944
PAD

SECRET

No. 424-425

2 Part Message Complete (REVISION)

From a dependable source, I have the two following statements which may be related as cause and effect:

1. The Germans are said to be greatly disturbed by the fact that a secret circular addressed to the "Spanish Missions in South America should have invited them to establish contacts with the "Neds" who are there as exiles or refugees, to receive them treat them indulgently, persuade them to take again their place in the national community, etc.

PART 2 2. Is it by a sort of counterstroke to this measure, that, according to what I have heard elsewhere, the Germans at this time urged the Spanish Government to gather together on its territory 140,000 "Neds" who are still in France and whose presence (if they are even retained there?) would be 100,000 "Neds" undesirable, as would also be their transfer to Germany? The Spanish Government is said to have agreed to this, though with displeasure and resistance, and is supposedly already preparing concentration camps in the north to shelter and feed them.

I should be interested to learn from Your Excellency if this second item of information is accurate, while endeavor to verify the first one.

x Message No. 425 has already been issued under SSA 130852 but erroneously combined with No. (74237) SSA 130852 is at present being revised.

In 29 Jun 44 192)
Rec'd 10 Jul 44
Trans 20 Jul 44 (10134-x)
Rec'd Ottawa July 25th, 1944.

Examination Unit,
National Research Council,
July 25th, 1944.

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