390.1115A/796a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Harrison)
971. American Interests—Financial Assistance. Department assumes that whenever it becomes possible to do so, the appropriate representatives of the Swiss Government will, in accordance with the provisions of Department’s instruction no. 1202 of February 14 to you, extend financial assistance to needy Americans in the Japanese-occupied areas of Burma and of the Netherlands Indies. These territories are hereby tentatively classified as Class III (three) and I (one) respectively in the classification of territories given in paragraph 9 of that instruction.