File No. 600.119/565
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page)
6796. For Sheldon [from War Trade Board]:
No. 175. Embassy’s No. 8891, your No, 223, March 4, 9 p.m. We approve of your suggestion as to modifying paragraph 3 of our 113. If this method of handling applications to import in northern European neutrals is finally agreed to in London, please inform our Legations in Holland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, and advise us that you have done so. It was our intention and we still feel that considerable latitude should be left the local joint committees in developing the most efficacious method of handling import applications, and that probably different methods would have to be adopted in the different countries.