In May and June 1944, James Mann traveled to Portugal and Spain to investigate and try to break the tension between the World Jewish Congress and the Joint in Lisbon. Though the WRB had a representative–Robert Dexter, formerly of the Unitarian Service Committee–in Lisbon, Mann found him to be partisan (openly preferring the WJC), slow, and almost completely ineffectual. In this cable, Pehle writes to Dexter that Mann would be returning to the Iberian peninsula to oversee operations, and chastised Dexter in response to Mann’s report.
(Military successes soon meant that Mann would go to London instead of Spain or Portugal, and Dexter would soon be informed that he should close up shop in Lisbon.)
