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Thirty-six countries were involved in the exchange of what might reach as high as 10,000 persons, shuttling, under Swiss and Spanish auspices, in channels between New York, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro and Lourenço Marques. It was a headache for the U.S. State Department and a heartache for many of the Axis nationals, whose positions ranged from accredited diplomats and consuls to suspected fifth columnists and trade "experts" booted out of Latin America. Included were ordinary citizens and nondiplomatic "notables" accepted for repatriation, newspapermen, hundreds of wives, children and dogs...
Japanese in the Americas and Americans and Britons held in Japan were to rendezvous later in the port of Lourenço Marques in Mozambique...