Office of the Historian

862.4016/2130: Telegram

The Chargé in Germany (Kirk) to the Secretary of State

Berlin, July 31, 1939—5 p.m.
[Received July 31—12:45 p.m.]

717. Department’s 330, July 29, 2 p.m.61 Regulations imposing restrictions upon Jews visiting health and bathing resorts having been published in the Reich Ministerial Blatt, note was presented today at the Foreign Office. Opinion was expressed by Foreign Office spokesman regulations would not affect Americans of Jewish faith who desired to visit German spas as such interference was not the intent of the law. No actual cases of interference have been reported.

Kirk
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