837.6363/549: Airgram

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

A–723. The Department understands from the last paragraph of your A–823 of April 18, 1944 that if the Cumex enters the petroleum pool on the basis you have described in previous communications the question of their volumetric participation would not necessarily be limited to the formula cited in your A–740 of April 8, 1944.

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In other words the Department does not believe that the Cumex should be forced by anyone other than the Cuban authorities acting on reasons solely of their own to accept definitively a volumetric participation in the pool which would result in substantial relative inferiority.

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