811.24 Raw Materials/944: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 17—11:03 a.m.]
1247. Telegram has today been sent Todd by his office stating “Lyttleton suggests and Campbell agrees proposal for third quarter quota should be 100 percent.”
Since tin meeting not until May 27 and in view of paragraph 1 of Singapore’s telegram of May 16, 6 p.m., to the Embassy,55 which was repeated to the Department, I am taking no action on your 876 of May 16 pending further and more specific instructions.
In the atmosphere of London at this moment it seems to me little use to lay backgrounds for deals. What is helpful is to have specific proposals to make which can be implemented.
- Not printed; it reported low stocks of tin at mine heads and stated that new Chinese mines must be opened to provide any sizable increase of production and to maintain output at 80 percent international quota (811.24 Raw Materials/942).↩