Office of the Historian

740.00119 EW/4–2745: Telegram

The Minister in Sweden (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Stockholm, April 27, 1945—6 p.m.
[Received April 27—4:09 p.m.]

1575. For the President.41 Your instructions conveyed in Department of State’s 754, April 26, 1 p.m.,42 were communicated at 11:30 last night to Mr. Boheman, Secretary General Swedish Foreign Office and Count Folke Bernadotte. We were in immediate telephone contact with Foreign Minister Günther and Boheman took the message to him. The same instructions through Navy channels were received after I had communicated with Boheman. I have been informed today that Bernadotte left this AM for Flensburg where Himmler’s agent is supposed to be. The reply will be delivered to him without any comment from the Swedish Government. Boheman told me Bernadotte will give personal advice that reply must be regarded as final and should be acted on at once.

Johnson
  1. A marginal notation reads: “Shown to the Acting Secretary at 5:45 p.m.”↩
  2. Not printed, but see telegram 7, April 26, 2:26 p.m., from the Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of State at San Francisco, p. 768.↩