837.6363/546: Airgram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Cuba ( Braden )

A–629. The Department assumes the ORPA has adequate reasons of its own as distinct from the natural desires of the other Pool members why the participation of the Cumex in the fuel oil pool should result in limiting that company’s sales to approximately 62% of its 1941 volume whereas the other Pool members are participating on a basis which permits them to sell quantities of fuel oil approximating or exceeding their 1941 sales.

The above refers to your A–740 of April 8, 1944.

Hull