811.20 Defense (M) Turkey/798: Telegram
The Ambassador in Turkey ( Steinhardt ) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9:40 p.m.]
1552. Minister for Foreign Affairs has informed me that the Germans are now entitled to approximately 36,000 tons of chrome by reason of their deliveries of 44,000,000 Turkish pounds of the 55,000,000 Turkish pounds of German goods stipulated in schedule I–A of the Clodius Agreement of October 9, 1941. Numan said that of the 36,000 tons, delivery of much of which is long overdue, only 15,000 tons have thus far been made available to the Germans and that of this amount 2,000 tons were sunk (see my 1499, September 2)66 and that they have requested him three times in the past week to replace the quantity which was sunk.
Numan also informed me that the Germans, who have delivered 17,650,000 Turkish pounds of the war materials stipulated in schedule I–AL, recently requested the conclusion of the agreement for the supply of an additional 135,000 tons of chrome provided for in the Clodius Agreement, but that he had stated that this agreement could not be even discussed until Germany had delivered the entire 18, 000,000 Turkish pounds of war material stipulated in schedule I.
Numan also told me that the Germans have delivered 38,000,000 marks of war material under the 100,000,000 mark armament credit agreement.
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