Office of the Historian

811.20 Defense (M) Peru/1110: Telegram

The Ambassador in Peru (White) to the Secretary of State

Lima, April 4, 1944—6 p.m.
[Received 8:37 p.m.]

461. Renewal rotenone price agreement49 expiring May 10th leaves Embassy option of adhering to original agreement price or voluntarily extending higher price schedule as set forth in Department’s telegram 305 March 24, 3 p.m.50

Global amount of difference would approximate $100,000 to private dealers.

The Embassy is disposed to use this and similar future opportunities as leverage for settling; postal and other small debts considering that political cooperation would not suffer thereby.

Such a course to be effective would require consistent support of American Government.

Request instructions.

White
  1. An agreement made in 1942 regarding the production and export of rotenone root and powdered rotenone; not printed.↩
  2. Not printed.↩