884.515/11–2944: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Ethiopia (Caldwell)
198. Reurtel [246] November 27. The Department has been endeavoring to facilitate shipment of military supplies and now understands from the Army that a part of the shipment will be ready to go forward about January 15, 1945. In view of the security problem involved not only in this shipment but in other imminent shipments of coins and currency,9 the Department together with FEA10 is exploring the possibility of sending all of these articles on one ship which would call at Djibouti. The mint states that the silver and the subsidiary coins will be ready for shipment about the end of January and the currency is expected to be ready at about the same time.
It is now hoped that all supplies will leave the United States on the same ship about January 31. You will be advised as soon as definite commitments can be obtained from all agencies concerned.
Reurtel 266 December 2211 Ethiopian Minister has taken all necessary action regarding coins and is providing full report to his Government.12
- For correspondence relating to the Ethiopian request for lend-lease assistance, see Foreign Relations, 1943, vol. iv, pp. 82 ff.; for text of the Lend-Lease Agreement between the United States and Ethiopia, signed at Washington, August 19, 1943, see Department of State Treaty Series No. 334, or 57 Stat. (pt. 2) 1043.↩
- Foreign Economic Administration.↩
- Not printed.↩
- The rifles and military equipment were delivered to the Ethiopian Government on April 8, 1945.↩