894.24/1388

The Chief of the Division of Controls ( Green ) to the Counselor of the Canadian Legation ( Mahoney )

My Dear Mr. Chargé d’Affaires:47 With reference to your letter of April 1, 1941, addressed to Mr. Hallett Johnson, I think that you will be interested to know that after April 18, 1941, asbestos, if chiefly of fibres of three-eighths of an inch or more in length, will be subject to export control. The result of this new requirement will undoubtedly be to make our policy match more closely with Canadian policy as regards the export of this commodity, and will, I believe, make it difficult to circumvent your asbestos quota for Japan by re-export to Japan from the United States of asbestos coming into this country from Canada.

Your desire to work closely with this Division in the administration of our two countries’ control of shipment of asbestos to the Far East is appreciated and reciprocated.

I am [etc.]

Joseph C. Green
  1. Form of address apparently an error. The Canadian Minister had been received on March 14.