File No. 657.119/269a

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

[Telegram]

218. The following additions have been made to the proposed schedule of commodities to be furnished the Norwegian Government, cabled you January 19: After “fruit, fresh” insert “sugar, 50,000; pork and beef, 10,000.” After “mineral oils” insert “oil seeds (for seed crushing plants), 20,000.” Insert following paragraph after sentence ending “her own production of foodstuffs “: “Subject to restrictions and considerations set forth in our letter of December 19 Norway is to receive, in so far as our own needs will permit and subject to the necessary allotments to the countries associated with us in the war and supplies to other neutral countries, the following commodities in quantities to be determined by her needs to be hereafter ascertained: metals, machinery of all kinds, fixtures, motor cars, motor trucks, bicycles, writing machines, cash registers, accounting machines, hardware and tools, chemicals, dyes, colors, drugs, medicines, resin, tobacco, tanning extracts, shoes and rubbers.”

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