711.00111 Armament Control/Military Secrets/812

The Secretary of State to the Carp Export and Import Corporation, New York, N. Y.

Sirs: The receipt is acknowledged of your application of September 8, 1937, and your applications of September 10, 1937,45 for license to export to Mashinoimport,46 Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a shipment of armor plate, nine sixteen-inch guns, three triple turrets, exclusive of armament, for mounting sixteen-inch guns, and 900 armor piercing sixteen-inch projectiles, 900 rounds of powder, and 1,000 electric percussion primers.

I have granted these applications upon the understanding that before attempting to export any of the articles referred to therein you will assure yourself that they do not embody any features constituting military secrets of interest to the National Defense, and that to this end you will submit to the Department for examination prior to exportation detailed specifications of the articles in question. In this connection, your attention is invited to Part V of the enclosed pamphlet, International Traffic in Arms.

The license for the exportation of the three triple turrets is issued upon the assumption that they fall within Category II of the President’s [Page 486] Proclamation of May 1, 1937, as they will constitute parts of a vessel of war to be constructed in the United States or to be assembled in the U.S.S.R.

The completed licenses are transmitted to you herewith.

Very truly yours,

For the Secretary of State:
Joseph C. Green

Chief, Office of Arms and Munitions Control
  1. None printed, but see memorandum of September 22, 1937, by the Chief of the Office of Arms and Munitions Control, p. 480.
  2. All-Union Combine for the Import of Equipment, Electrical Goods, and Hauling Machinery.