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311.5754 Janko/6

Memorandum of Conversation, by the Under Secretary of State (Stettinius)

[Washington,] January 21, 1944.

The Norwegian Ambassador called at his request this afternoon and left with me the attached papers18 pertaining to a tanker which is being held in New York because of a suit against the Norwegian [Page 1201] Government by a Panamanian Corporation. This tanker is definitely needed in the war effort for the transportation of petroleum. The Ambassador urgently requests the Department to appeal to the District Court for the Eastern District of New York on the basis of sovereign immunity. These papers are being directed to Mr. Hackworth19 with a copy of this memorandum.

E[dward] S[tettinius]
  1. The two documents supra. ↩
  2. Green H. Hackworth, Legal Adviser.↩