Office of the Historian

837.61351/3908a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Cuba (Braden)

Washington, May 28, 1943—5 p.m.

624. From Brown,91 CCC. You are requested to make a firm offer to the Cuban Sugar Stabilization Institute for the 300,000 tons of free sugar produced in Cuba during the 1943 crop,92 under the same terms as governed the purchase of the 2,700,000 tons. If accepted you are authorized to exchange letters immediately so that June first payment can include this sugar, providing that the Institute can issue proper identity certificates by that date. [Brown.]

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  1. Courtney Brown, vice president of the Commodity Credit Corporation.↩
  2. The Purchase Agreement on the 1943 sugar crop authorized the production of 300,000 short tons of raw sugar for sale in world markets, and granted to Commodity Credit Corporation an option on its purchase.↩