Office of the Historian

890D.48/110: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Beirut (Engert)
Washington, March 22, 1941—7 p.m.

41. Your No. 84, March 19, 3 p.m., unnumbered [No. 82], March 19, 9 a.m. and previous. The Embassy at London has received the following letter from the British Ministry of Economic Warfare dated March 19 regarding trade with Syria:

[Here follows text of letter quoted in telegram No. 1087, March 20, 1 p.m., from the Ambassador in the United Kingdom, printed supra.]

Applications for navicerts covering milk products were referred to London some time ago and the British Embassy in Washington is telegraphing its Government now urging prompt action. You may inform the High Commissioner that we expect favorable action in the very near future.42

Welles
  1. The Consul General was notified in telegram No. 50, April 2, 5 p.m., that the British Embassy had informed the Department that navicerts for four shipments of Nestle’s milk to Syria were issued on March 31.↩