Even before the War Refugee Board was formed, the Treasury and State Department worked together on a deal wherein the Joint would provide $100,000 to the Red Cross for relief in concentration camps. (It was originally a larger amount of money, but after the WRB was formed, expanding the plan wasn’t as necessary, but they still had the $100,000.)  The Red Cross was beginning to spend the money, but part of the plan was that the United States and Great Britain had to approve any expenditures. (As you can imagine, no one was really thrilled about the bureaucracy of all this.)  In this letter from the British legation in Bern to Daniel Reagan, the commercial secretary of the American legation, the Red Cross wanted to send apple jam and cans of green peas to Theresienstadt.  This plan was approved.