Foreign Relations of the United States, The Soviet Union, 1933–1939

711.00111 Armament Control/Military Secrets/1294a

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

Washington, October 4, 1938.

Sirs: I refer to licenses nos. 4085, 4086, 4087 and 4088, which were issued to you on September 30, 1937,¹⁹ authorizing the export of armor plate, naval guns, turrets, projectiles, propellent powder, and other materials for naval use, to Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Since these licenses have now expired, I should appreciate it if you would return the originals of the licenses to the Department of State.²⁰

Very truly yours,

For the Secretary of State:

Joseph C. Green

,
Chief, Office of Arms and Munitions Control

19. For the grant of these licenses, see the letter from the Secretary of State to the Carp Export and Import Corporation, October 1, 1937, p. 485.
20. The Chief of the Office of Arms and Munitions Control, Joseph C. Green, telephoned on October 1, 1938, to Scott Ferris, attorney for the Carp Export and Import Corporation, to inform him that “this action on the part of the Department was a routine procedure followed in the case of all arms export licenses which had been outstanding for one year and that it should not be understood to imply any change of policy whatever on the part of the Government in respect to the construction of battleships for the U. S. S. R. in this country or the exportation of those ships when completed.” (711.00111 Armament Control/Military Secrets/1299)