811.20 Defense (M) Chile/8–2144: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Chile (Bowers)
925. ReDeptel 900, August 11, 1944.52 If you see no objection suggest you advise the Chilean government USCC will not exercise the privilege, now available to it, of cancelling existing contracts for the purchase of gold ores and concentrates of Chilean origin. These contracts will therefore remain in force until February 1, 1945, or until such earlier date as total deliveries thereunder of material produced subsequent to July 31, 1943 equal 30,000 tons of ores and 24,000 tons of concentrates, the undelivered balance under the old overall agreement which expired July 31, 1944.
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