611.51G31/5
The Department of State to the French Embassy
Aide-Mémoire
The United States Government has noted the French Government’s proposal, in its aide-mémoire of January 6, 1941,65 that this Government enter into commercial negotiations with Indochina.
This Government is continuing to study the possibilities of entering into negotiations with respect to a general trade agreement, and, in the meantime, would find it useful if the French Government, as suggested in its aide-mémoire, would request its Ambassador at Tokyo to [Page 49] furnish the American Ambassador there with information relative to the progress of the commercial conversations between Indochina and Japan.
This Government has regularly given full consideration to offers to sell with respect to such commodities as rubber, tin, tungsten and antimony which have been transmitted to this Government by the Government of Indochina. This Government is prepared to continue its policy of considering, with a view to purchase, offers with respect to the above named or similar commodities which the Government of Indochina may make.
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