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811.516 Export-Import Bank/8–2448

The Secretary of State to the Embassy in Colombia

confidential
No. 152
Washington, August 24, 1948.

The Secretary of State transmits herewith for the information of the Officer in Chargé a copy of the agreement, signed on August 12, 1948,1 between the Republic of Colombia and the Export-Import Bank of Washington establishing a line of credit of $10 million to finance the acquisition in the United States of supplies, materials, equipment and services required for replacement, reconstruction or repair and development of properties destroyed or damaged during the recent disturbances in Colombia.

  1. Not printed; for additional information on this credit (No. 442), authorized April 13, 1948, see Export-Import Bank of Washington: Sixth Semiannual Report to Congress for the Period January–June 1948, pp. 6 and 18.↩