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The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Argentina ( Reed )

1298. Due to the critical shipping situation and in view of the fact that the average monthly exports of newsprint to Argentina for the first 6 months of 1942 amounted to 4500 tons, the Department requests urgently the Embassy’s comments as to whether 5000 tons per month would not be sufficient in view of the cut in size of newspapers.

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