811.20 (D) Regulations/3950: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Lockhart)
582. The Department has carefully considered your despatch no. 581 of June 23, 1941, in which inter alia you describe ways in which considerable quantities of American exports to the Shanghai area are likely to reach undesirable destinations. In the light of that despatch and in view of shortages that have developed in this country in many commodities and products, the Department has decided in general to recommend to the Administrator of Export Control the issuance of export licenses for Shanghai only when the proposed shipment appears vital to the preservation of physical properties owned and operated by American or British citizens, where the shipment has some connection with the operation of local public utilities or with public health, or where the quantities involved are insignificant. The applications referred to in the following telegrams will therefore be rejected:
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