Office of the Historian

740.00112 European War 1939/10631b: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)4

Washington, April 17, 1944—8 p.m.

3054. From Department and FEA. Department and FEA will follow, pending results of present efforts to restrict further Swedish exports of bearings to Axis, a policy of licensing to Sweden only those exports required under the strictest possible interpretation of the War Trade Agreement, allowing exceptions only for vitally essential humanitarian purposes and unimportant items in long supply.

Please seek MEW’s agreement to a similar policy on all Swedish imports from the U.K. or navicert area. [Department and FEA.]

Hull
  1. Repeated on the same date to Stockholm as telegram 682.↩