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Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1940, General and Europe, Volume II

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Contents

    • Supplementary extradition treaty between the United States and Switzerland, signed January 31, 1940

Contents

  • General (Continued from Volume I):
    • Neutrality policy of the United States and representations for the maintenance of neutral rights:
      • I. Neutrality policy of the United States
      • II. Representations to the Allied Governments against application of control measures interfering with trade between the United States and neutral countries (Documents 1–42)
      • III. Representations by the United States, Sweden, and Finland to Germany and the United Kingdom against interference with shipment of wood pulp to the United States (Documents 43–54)
    • Repatriation of Americans and others from belligerent countries and assistance to refugees:
      • I. Emergency measures for the repatriation of American citizens abroad with the spread of war in Europe (Documents 55–250)
      • II. Efforts of the United States to secure repatriation of aliens from belligerent countries (Documents 251–276)
      • III. Cooperation with the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees to assist persons forced to emigrate, primarily from Germany, for political or racial reasons (Documents 277–317)
    • Efforts by the United States to secure adequate supplies of raw materials for defense purposes:
      • I. Plans to acquire adequate stockpiles of strategic raw materials and to prohibit their export (Documents 318–328)
      • II. Negotiations with the International Rubber Regulation Committee, through the British and Netherlands Governments, for adequate supplies of rubber (Documents 329–353)
      • III. Negotiations with the International Tin Regulation Committee, through the British and Netherlands Governments, for adequate supplies of tin (Documents 354–367)
      • IV. Arrangements for the purchase of copper from other American Republics for defense needs (Documents 368–372)
    • Interest of the United States in proposals for the reorganization of the non-political activities of the League of Nations; question of transference of certain technical services to the United States (Documents 373–415)
    • Territorial claims in the Antarctic advanced by certain governments (Documents 416–423)
    • Status of intergovernmental debts owed the United States by reason of the First World War
    • Functions of the American Government in the promotion of American trade (Document 424)
  • Europe:
    • Denmark:
      • Establishment by the United States of a provisional consulate in Greenland (Documents 425–434)
      • Consideration by the United States of measures for the defense of Greenland after the German occupation of Denmark (Documents 435–461)
    • France:
      • Maintenance of relations by the United States with the French Government at Vichy (Documents 462–496)
      • Continuation by the United States of Embassy functions in France after French capitulation to Germany (Documents 497–522)
      • Concern of the United States over the disposition of the French Fleet after the Germans invaded France (Documents 523–564)
      • Concern of the United States over the fate of the French possessions in the Western Hemisphere after the invasion of France by Germany (Documents 565–577)
      • Concern of the United States over the disposition of French war vessels and airplanes in Martinique after the capitulation of France to Germany (Documents 578–603)
      • Consideration of problem of giving food relief to France without aiding Germany (Documents 604–621)
      • Protection of American property interests in France after capitulation to Germany (Documents 622–628)
      • Persecution of Jews by German occupation and Vichy Governments; representations by the United States on behalf of American Jews (Documents 629–634)
      • Interest of the United States in political and economic conditions in French North Africa (Documents 635–722)
      • Assumption of control over French Equatorial Africa by the Free French; non-committal attitude of the United States (Documents 723–742)
      • Efforts by the United States to secure release by France of certain strategic materials held in Indochina (Documents 743–775)
      • Reservations by the United States of its treaty rights with respect to export-import restrictions in French mandated territory
    • Germany:
      • Representations by Germany against the surveillance of mail arriving in the United States for German Consulates (Documents 776–777)
      • Representations to the German Government with respect to its treatment of American motion-picture interests in Germany and in German occupied areas (Documents 778–785)
    • Greece
    • Iceland:
      • Establishment of direct official relations between the Government of Iceland and the Government of the United States (Documents 786–791)
      • Disinclination of the United States to take Iceland under its protection following German invasion of Denmark and British occupation of Iceland (Documents 792–799)
    • Italy:
      • Efforts by the United States to keep Italy from entering the War against the Allies (Documents 800–835)
      • Protest by the United States regarding attack by Italian airplanes on the Sudan Interior Mission at Doro, killing two American citizens and wounding two others (Documents 836–838)
      • Oral protest by the United States regarding Italian bombing of American-owned oil properties in Saudi Arabia (Documents 839–848)
    • Lithuania:
      • Negotiations respecting a consular convention between the United States and Lithuania (Document 848a)
    • Netherlands:
      • Concern of the United States over the fate of the Netherland possessions in the Western Hemisphere after the Netherlands was overrun by Germany (Documents 849–872)
    • Norway:
      • Claims convention between the United States and Norway signed March 28, 1940
    • Poland:
      • Representations to the German and British Governments in support of efforts of American organizations to send relief supplies to Poland (Documents 873–890)
    • Rumania:
      • Persecution of Jews in Rumania (Documents 891–899)
      • Application of controls on Rumanian assets in the United States (Documents 900–915)
    • Spain:
      • Concern of the United States over the maintenance of neutrality by Spain (Documents 916–930)
      • Efforts of the Government of Spain to obtain needed foodstuffs from the United States (Documents 931–975)
      • Representations to the Spanish Government regarding American interests in the Spanish National Telephone Company (Documents 976–1012)
    • Switzerland:
      • Supplementary extradition treaty between the United States and Switzerland, signed January 31, 1940
    • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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