811.91262/248: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Germany ( Morris )
1288. Your 1690, May 2, 3 p.m. The delivery of additional notes to the Foreign Office on the Hottelet and Nelson and Jacobsen cases is left to your discretion. In discussing these cases orally, you may merely refer to the Embassy’s previous notes on these cases if you judge this more desirable.
The Department concurs in the suggestion made in Section 3 of your 1690 but recommends that the statement be made orally at the same time you discuss these cases in accordance with the Department’s 1202.
Seventeen members of the crew of the Pauline Friedrich are detained at the Immigration Station in Boston. The master and 9 others of this vessel have been charged with sabotage under Section 502, title 18 of the United States Criminal Code. Bail for 5 has been fixed at $20,000 each and for other 5 at $10,000 each. As bail has not been posted all 10 are detained.
Forty-three of the crew of the Arauca are detained at Miami, Florida, where deportation proceedings are pending. No charges of sabotage have been made against this crew. Both crews have free and continuous access to their consular officers.
Manfred Zapp and Gunther Tonn of Transocean News were indicted for failure to register under Foreign Agents Act.15 Zapp was released at once under $5,000 bail and Tonn under $3,000 bail. As they are released on bail they, of course, have free access to their consular representatives.
- Foreign Agents Registration Act, approved June 8, 1938, 52 Stat. 631.↩