The Archive · 1938

US. Chnnelates Are Not Banks

Cannot Transmit Money te Non-Americans Washington, July 23.

The State Department today fo mally notified American citizens with relatives in Europe that it cannot serve as an agal transmit money to persons who are not Amer-jean citizens.

The statement was issued because the American Consulate-General at Vienna recently has received funds from numerous persons in the United States for transmission to distant friends or relatives in Germany The statement said that legal prohibition, especially where ihe bench ficiary is not an American, prevented the transmission of funds through Consular offices or official Gove ment channels—United Press.

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