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Contents

    • Representations to the British Government on effects of import controls on American business and agriculture (Documents 174–197)
      • Negotiations between the United States and the United Kingdom for the exchange of strategic agricultural products and raw materials; agreement signed June 23, 1939, for exchange of cotton for rubber (Documents 198–224)
        • Representations to the British Government with regard to censorship of American mail (Documents 225–232)
          • Operation of the British censorship of American telecommunications to and from British territory (Documents 233–244)
            • Investigation concerning the responsibility for the sinking of the British S. S. “Athenia”, September 3, 1939, with loss of American lives (Documents 245–264)
              • Decision against sale by United States Maritime Commission of surplus merchant vessels to the British Government (Documents 265–270)
                • Conflicting American and British claims to various islands in the Pacific Ocean; agreement for the joint administration of Canton and Enderbury Islands, effected by exchange of notes, April 6, 1939 (Documents 271–285)
                  • Representations regarding British import and exchange restrictions in Kenya Colony and the mandated territory of Tanganyika in violation of American treaty rights (Documents 286–292)

                  General, The British Commonwealth and Europe

                  • General (continued from Volume I): (Documents 1–173)
                    • British Commonwealth of Nations: (Documents 174–316)
                      • United Kingdom: (Documents 174–292)
                      • Europe: (Documents 317–871)
                        • Index

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