740.25112 R.P./9–1444: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Chile (Bowers)
996. There appears to be some inconsistency between your telegram 1494, September 13, and the final two sentences of your telegram 1498 of September 1437 concerning the addition of Chilean names in the forthcoming supplement to the Proclaimed List. Please clarify by immediate cable.
The Embassy will have noted from Department’s 985, September 1438 that only 45 deletions will in any event be possible in the next [Page 781] supplement. Other deletions recommended by the Embassy were not approved for this supplement by the Committee as they fell into the following two categories: (1) Employees of firms in the process of liquidation or forced sale. It was felt that deletion of these names at this time might interfere with thoroughgoing clean-up action by the Chilean authorities. If the Embassy believes that some of these persons can be considered as satisfactory employees for the reorganized firms and therefore desires to recommend them for deletion in the October supplement, it is requested to report in greater detail on such names. (2) Cloaks for firms which are still on the Proclaimed List and against which no clean-up action has been instituted. There is nothing in the record to indicate that these cloaks would not resume their purchase of American goods which would be turned over to the principal listed firms nor is there any indication that the individuals have requested their deletion or stated their willingness to give a standard form of undertaking.