File No. 652.119/2006
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Spain ( Willard)
1797. For Chadbourne [from War Trade Board]:
No. 360. Referring further Embassy’s 1988, October 23, 10 p.m., your 252;1 and 2017, October 31, 10 a.m., your 368.1 Board believes the plan described in its cablegram No. 158, July 20, 5 p.m., Department’s 1339,1 will be much more satisfactory than continuing as heretofore. Spanish Embassy here has had confirmation from their Government that the plan is accepted. We therefore propose to put the plan into effect at once and request that you immediately publish same and proceed with the issuing of certificates. We are releasing for the morning papers of November 15 the following press notice:
New Procedure with respect to Shipments of Raw Cotton to Spain
The War Trade Board of the United States announce that the representative of the War Trade Board of the United States in Spain will confer with and obtain from the appropriate Spanish officials and committees a statement of the quantity of raw cotton which each spinner or consumer in Spain is to receive of the 105,000 bales to be licensed by the United States for the three months commencing September 1, 1918, and during each three months’ period thereafter.
The War Trade Board representative in Spain will thereupon write a serially numbered letter to each spinner or consumer, stating that the United States is prepared to grant licenses to exporters in the United States acceptable to the War Trade Board for the exportation from the United States of a given quantity of raw cotton to be used by the person named in such letter.
The spinner or consumer whose imports have been determined and certified to in the above manner may purchase the cotton either directly from the exporter in the United States or through the importing merchant in Spain. In either case the serial number of the letter and the name of the spinner or consumer shall be furnished to the exporter in the United States with whom contract is made for the sale of the cotton and must appear on the application for export license.
Such exporters in the United States may apply for export licenses on form X. No supplementary sheet is required. The applicant [Page 1716] must endorse on such application a statement to the effect that the applicant has entered in a contract for the sale of the quantity of cotton as specified in the application, and furnish the serial number of the letter issued by the War Trade Board representative in Spain.
Attention is directed to War Trade Board ruling No. 265, and exporters are requested to make their applications conform thereto.