Office of the Historian

751G.94/295: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Leahy)

Washington, February 1, 1941—3 p.m.

104. Your 131, January 30, Section 1. The Department has sent a telegram to the Consulate at Saigon reading in part as follows:

“The Rubber Reserve Company72 is prepared to accept offers for any amount of available rubber within its price limit and under terms [Page 53] similar to those embodied in previous contracts. It will also consider offers covering production for the coming year. You are therefore requested to discuss this matter with the Government General in an endeavor to ascertain whether or not it is possible to effect such a contract under the terms indicated. If this does not appear feasible, the question of alternative terms should be discussed and reported at the earliest possible moment.”

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  1. The Rubber Reserve Company, a component of the Federal Loan Agency, was set up on June 28, 1940, under authority of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act of March 9, 1933 (48 Stat. 6), as amended on June 25, 1940 (54 Stat 572).↩