837.6363/534: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Cuba (Braden)
Washington, March 11,
1944—1 p.m.
215. Your 220 of March 2, 1944. There has been no improvement in the combined tanker and fuel oil situation sufficient to permit any increase in the present basic allotment of 40% of 1941 consumption.60
The Department and other Government Agencies continue disposed to examine all justifiable cases that can qualify as economic or war essentials.
Hull