812.244/1

The Department of State to the Mexican Embassy

Memorandum

The Department of State has to refer to a memorandum dated August 30, 1943, from the Embassy of Mexico regarding the matter of obtaining fifteen hundred daily rations from the United States for [Page 411] members of the Mexican Army stationed in the Second Mexican Military Zone in Lower California.

The Department of State is advised that the military authorities of the Government of the United States in California will be glad to lend their good offices in the matter of facilitating the purchase by the military authorities of the Government of Mexico of the supplies in question, and would be glad to learn whom the military authorities of Mexico might desire to designate to discuss this matter.