A committee of three noted correspondents was named by the Foreign Press Association today to press for withdrawal by the Nazi authorities of the deportation order against Boris Smolar, chief European correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, scheduled to be carried out on Thursday.
The committee, which has been instructed to present the demand tomorrow to Herr Aschmann, head of the Foreign Office’s press section, comprises: Frederick Oechsner of the United Press; Charles Albert Lambert of the Manchester Guardian, and G. Gordon Young of Reuters.
The American Consulate General was forced to postpone until tomorrow negotiations with Gestapo officials scheduled for today. Consul General Douglas Jenkins and Vice-Consul Raymond Geist will meet tomorrow morning with Herr Heydrick, chief aide of Gestapo leader Heinrich Himmler, to discuss the deportation order. Intervention by the consulate resulted Saturday in extending from Sunday until Thursday execution of the order, which had been issued on the ground that Smolar’s “continued stay in the country was endangering the internal security of the Reich.”
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