600.51G9/25: Telegram
The Consul at Hanoi (Reed) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:45 a.m.]
123. My telegram No. 120, August 14, 9 a.m.65 concerning control of exportations. The public reaction to the Government General’s decision to prohibit exportations was evidently such that the authorities found it expedient to issue statements on August 14 and 15 as to the purpose of the prohibition, “controlling more effectively the regime of exportations facilitating the execution of our international engagements, and perfecting the struggle against high cost of living”, and reassuring the public that there is no intention to stop the exports of the Indo-Chinese Union “as the economic relations between nations are based on a system of close relation between importation and exportation”. It is presumed that the above reference to “our international engagements” relates to exports to Japan stipulated by treaty and that the execution of these engagements vis-à-vis Japan is the chief reason for the control of exportations.
Sent to Cavite for repetition to the Department, Chungking, Peiping, Hong Kong, Shanghai.
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