894.24/759
Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of Controls (Green)32
It is considered that the national interest suggests that for the time being there should be no further delivery to interests of certain countries of plans, plants, manufacturing rights, or technical information required for the production of high quality aviation gasoline.
Accordingly, the Department has requested E. B. Badger and Sons Company, the M. W. Kellogg Company, the Phillips Petroleum Company, the Shell Oil Company, Incorporated, the Shell Union Oil Corporation, the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Incorporated, the Standard Oil Development Company, the Sun Oil Company, and the Universal Oil Products Company to withhold any further sale or delivery of any such plans, plants, manufacturing rights or technical information, or of related patents, processes, or engineering assistance to representatives of or for use in certain countries.
In the event that the sale or delivery of such plans, plants, manufacturing rights or technical information, or of related patents, processes, or engineering assistance to certain other countries is contemplated, it is understood that the Department will be informed.
It is understood that, in case negotiations are broken off or the fulfillment of commitments is suspended, the request of the Department may be given as a reason for such action.
Should any problems arise in connection with the carrying out of this program, companies may communicate with the Division of Controls of the Department which will be glad to take up any such problems at once.
The Department recognizes that companies other than those represented in the meeting held today will have an interest in this policy. It is understood that the representatives of the companies listed above will take it upon themselves to communicate with representatives of such companies.
For the purpose of giving additional effectiveness to this policy, if necessary, it is considered desirable that manufacturers and exporters of such blending agents as tetra-ethyl lead, iso-octane, neo-hexane, and alkylates be requested to furnish the Department with data as to recent shipments or contemplated shipments of such blending agents to certain countries33 to the end that the Department may be informed as to whether large reserve stocks are being built up in that country. The Department is, therefore, with a view to determining whether or not the sale for export of such blending agents [Page 550] requires further discussion, requesting the companies listed below to furnish it currently with such information:
- Atlantic Refining Company
- Cities Service Export Company
- Ethyl Gasoline Corporation
- Gulf Refining Company
- Pan American Refining Company
- Phillips Petroleum Company
- Shell Union Oil Corporation
- Sinclair Refining Company
- Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc.
- Standard Oil Company of California
- Standard Oil Company of Indiana
- Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
- The Texas Company
- Tidewater Associated Oil Company
- Copies transmitted on December 19 to the companies listed in the second paragraph. For the Department’s press release of December 20, see Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 203.↩
- Countries referred to were Japan and the Soviet Union.↩