Office of the Historian

660H.1115/29: Telegram

The Minister in Yugoslavia (Lane) to the Secretary of State

Belgrade, October 23, 1939—5 p.m.
[Received 6:14 p.m.]

321. My 184, July 6.25 Minister of Finance Šutej26 said to me this morning that in accordance with instructions which he received from the Prince Regent he wished to recommence negotiation for the granting of credit $500,000 from the Export-Import Bank for the purchase of cotton. He said he would instruct Yugoslav Minister at Washington to negotiate. Minister for Foreign Affairs subsequently confirmed the foregoing.

Lane
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Juraj Šutej replaced Vojin Djuričić as Minister of Finance following the latter’s resignation August 24, 1939.↩