800.857/678: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Argentina (Armour)
987. Your 1132, June 15, 5 p.m. In accordance with your recommendation, export licenses have today been issued authorizing exportation [Page 408] of 800 steel plates, 2 electric arc welders and other repair materials consigned to Cía. Argentina de Navegación Mihanovich, Ltda. The Steel plates were charged against the Maritime Commission’s Repairs and Conversion allocation, in accordance with Administrative Order No. 7, providing for the maintenance of this company’s normal operations. You are authorized to inform the Argentine Government in the manner suggested by you. It is important, however, that you follow the ship repair situation closely, in order that the Department will be in a position to recommend future shipments if the need should arise. No further export licenses will be granted for such critical material outside the Board of Economic Warfare’s allocation system until the Department hears further from you that the decree has been suppressed or modified in a satisfactory manner.