I made a quick mention in one of my previous blog posts about reports which Treasury Dept staff wrote based on research in the State Department records rooms. They wanted to see what the State Dept had been doing about refugee and relief matters, so they would go, look through file cabinets, and write reports about what they found. This cable is one of them, about Paraguayan citizens in France. This idea of protective papers–that Jews could obtain real or falsified documents which stated that the bearer was a citizen of a Latin American country–became a constant issue for the WRB.  Theoretically, the bearer of the document could not be deported and would be interned as an citizen of an enemy country in special camps like Vittel or Bergen-Belsen. The idea fluctuated between being a problem for the WRB, or potentially a way to save people.