Office of the Historian

861.24/1121a

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in the Soviet Union (Henderson)

No. 59
Washington, October 13, 1942.

The Secretary of State encloses a certified copy of the protocol in regard to providing the Soviet Union with military supplies, raw materials, equipment and food, signed on October 6, 1942, by Mr. Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State, Sir Ronald Campbell, British Minister in Washington, and Mr. Maxim Litvinoff, Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in Washington.44

Photostats of Annexes II45 and III46 are also enclosed and the covering page of Annex I.47 It is understood that the Embassy has a copy of the body of Annex I.48

The texts of the protocol and Annexes are Strictly Confidential and will not be published. Information in regard to their contents should be limited to officials who have duties in relation to their administration.

[Enclosure—Annex III]

Decisions With Respect to the Soviet Government’s Request49 for Supplies of Aircraft, Aluminum, Cobalt and Nickel Beyond Those Provided in the Proposed Second Protocol

1)
The Government of the United Kingdom will before termination of their present commitment give further consideration to the question of continuing or increasing supplies of aircraft after the end of 1942. [Page 735] They can at present give no undertaking in the matter. The Government of the United States is earnestly examining the request of the Soviet Government and will reach a decision as promptly as possible in consultation with representatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
2)
The Government of the United Kingdom agree to continue to supply aluminum at the approximate monthly rate of 2,000 tons until the end of 1942.
3)
The Government of the United States undertakes to make available ten tons of cobalt per month during the period covered by the Second Protocol.
4)
The Government of the United States and the Government of the United Kingdom agree to increase the amount of nickel to be provided to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in all forms, except finished military stores, to 700 short tons per month for the fourth quarter of 1942.
  1. For the text of the Second (Washington) Protocol signed on October 6, 1942, see Department of State, Soviet Supply Protocols, p. 15.↩
  2. Ante, p. 712.↩
  3. The enclosure printed below.↩
  4. Ante, p. 706.↩
  5. i. e., the Proposed Second Protocol; see footnote 99, p. 706.↩
  6. The requests of the Soviet Government are contained in the note of July 7 from the Ambassador of the Soviet Union, p. 712.↩