811.20 (D) Regulations/4198a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Lockhart)
578. The British Purchasing Commission is now presenting to the Department applications for license to export materials to Shanghai, bearing a stamp to the effect that “The material in this application has been approved by both U. S. and British Consular and Embassy officials in Shanghai, China, and is therefore endorsed.” The British Embassy in Washington states that British officials in Shanghai have been instructed to recommend no shipments from the United States to Shanghai without your prior concurrence. Have you arrived at any understanding with the British Embassy in Shanghai in regard to this matter? The Department wishes in any case that you continue to make your own recommendations by telegraph to the Department.