File No. 657.119/254

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Norway ( Schmedeman )

[Telegram]

207. Following schedule was delivered yesterday to Nansen as supplementary to proposal of December 20. Figures indicate tentative amounts in metric tons.

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Proposed schedule of commodities agreed to by the United States and her associates in the war as sufficient to cover this year’s Norwegian requirements considering the existing conditions:

Foodstuffs:
Bread grains, including rice 300,000
Starches 1,000
Cocoa 1,400
Coffee 14,500
Tea 160
Sauces and pickles 80
Syrup 5,000
Spices 382
Fruit, dried 4,000
Fruit, fresh 6,000
Oils and fats:
Vegetable and animal oils 10,000
Mineral oils 76,500
Rubber, etc 500
Textiles:
Silk yarn and tissues 110
Cotton, raw, yarn and manufactures 8,000
Wool, wool yarns and products 3,700
Miscellaneous:
Corkwood 900
Tin, raw 80
Lead 1,000
Antimony 12
Asbestos 350
Borax and boric acid 80

In addition to the quantities mentioned, further quantities may be granted where it is found that the amount stated is not sufficient for the needs of Norway.

Norway’s requirement of oil cake, when ascertained, will be allowed.

There is to be included in the foregoing schedule certain textiles, hides and skins, and a large tonnage of raw phosphate for agricultural purposes, together with necessary agricultural machinery and other articles to assist Norway in increasing her own production of foodstuffs.

The stocks of imported foodstuffs and other supplies in Norway are, when ascertained, to be deducted from the quantities given.

Norway’s import of the foregoing quantities to be conditioned upon her continuing certain exports to the powers associated with the United States.

Polk