818.6363/250: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Costa Rica ( Scotten )
206. Your telegram 208, March 10. You should make perfectly clear to appropriate government officials that the pooling arrangement under which the American republics are receiving imported oil supplies is fundamentally and essentially a joint agreement under which all oil supplies and supplying facilities are added together and divided on a basis of equality among the participants. According to this definition there can be no such thing as “oil imports outside the pool.” Department is strongly in favor of full development of all possibilities of increasing oil supplies from all available sources including Mexico but principle stated above will be followed in all cases.