300.115(39)/23: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Hamburg (Keblinger)
Washington, October
27, 1939—7 p.m.
121. Referring to your telegram 174, October 25, section 2,6 American Ambassador London has been instructed to explain circumstances concerning these shipments of wood pulp, their necessity to the paper and related industries in the United States and to express the hope of this Government that these shipments will not be seized or molested.
Interested importers have been advised of proposed procedure but find German consular officers without instructions in the matter.
Hull
- i. e., the second paragraph of the telegram.↩