Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947, The British Commonwealth; Europe, Volume III

Editorial Note

Negotiations for the fish purchase agreement continued through 1947. In October, Trimble was instructed to inform the Icelandic Government that the United States and Great Britain proposed to purchase jointly from Iceland through the British Ministry of Food during calendar year 1948 approximately seventy thousand tons of fish for the bi-zonal area of Germany (telegram 265, October 18, not printed, 862.5018/10–1847). On November 14, Trimble was instructed to inform the Icelandic Government that the British Government had agreed to purchase terms of 100 percent cash sterling, rather than the 75 percent proposed and not accepted in October (telegram 280, November 14, not printed, 862.5018/11–1447). Texts of the purchase agreements are in this same file.