Office of the Historian

648T.006/10: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Nairobi (Smith)

Washington, December 1, 1939—5 p.m.

Department’s telegram November 29, 6 p.m. Before disseminating your cables, Commerce Department considers it desirable to ascertain answers to following questions:

1.
Do restrictions apply to all countries or only to non-sterling areas?
2.
Is permission for any American products being consistently refused?
3.
Should American exporters be assured that licenses for importation have been granted before shipping?
4.
When import licenses are obtainable do exchange permits automatically follow?
5.
Are Kenya and Uganda exchange controls similar to Tanganyika Government Notice No. 179 [171] of September 3?36

Telegraph reply.

Hull
  1. For text, see Tanganyika Territory, Gazette, Supplement No. 2, Government Notices, vol. 20 (1939), p. 241.↩