853M.6363/27: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Loanda, Angola (Linnell)

28. Your A–13 and 8, December 27, 1942 and January 9, 1943.84

1.
Department is prepared to make one of the contingencies to the supply of oil to Angola the enforcement by the Angola Government [Page 587] and oil distributors there of an absolute ban on deliveries to “enemy nationals” as defined by General Ruling No. 11.85 The latter ruling, a copy of which will be sent you from Lisbon, includes in the definition of “enemy national” 1) persons representing enemy or enemy-controlled governments and 2) Proclaimed List nationals. After consultation with your British colleague, please indicate whether the Proclaimed List in Angola now includes the names of all persons and firms with Axis connections or sympathies from which American oil should be withheld in the interests of our economic warfare program.
2.
For your confidential information, we plan to control oil supplies to Angola from Belgian Congo. Therefore, if Angola’s Governor refuses compliance with these conditions and since there is no way for him to obtain oil from the Germans or elsewhere, he can justify his acceptance of our conditions, which require unequal treatment for “enemy nationals”, as a necessity to enable him to secure any oil at all for the balance of the population.
3.
Department and BEW86 are considering sending an oil specialist as an attaché of your Consulate to handle all oil matters and guard against diversion. Please comment.

Repeated to London Embassy.87

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  1. Telegram No. 8 not printed.
  2. 7 Federal Register 2168.
  3. Board of Economic Warfare.
  4. Repeated on the same date to London (No. 710) with the following introduction: “For Blacklist Section. The following is Department’s . . . . . of . . . . . . . to Loanda.” and the following conclusion: “Please request Lisbon to send Loanda the text of General Ruling No. 11 by mail, together with copies of such instructions on licensing thereunder as you deem desirable. Also please indicate to the Department your views on the adequacy of present listing in Angola for the purpose of controlling oil distribution.”