Office of the Historian

  • Home
  • Historical Documents
    • Foreign Relations of the United States
    • About the Foreign Relations Series
    • Current Status of the Foreign Relations Series
    • History of the Foreign Relations Series
    • Ebooks Initiative
    • Quarterly Releases
  • Department History
    • Overview
    • Biographies of the Secretaries of State
    • Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission
    • Travels of the Secretary of State
    • Travels of the President
    • Visits by Foreign Heads of State
    • World War I and the Department
    • Buildings of the Department of State
    • U.S. Diplomatic Couriers
  • Guide to Countries
    • Guide to Country Recognition and Relations
    • World Wide Diplomatic Archives Index
  • More Resources
    • Browse Resources by Subject Tag
    • Conferences
    • Contact Us
    • Developer Resources & APIs
    • Educational Resources
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Key Milestones
    • Open Government Initiative
    • A Short History of the Department
  • About Us
  1. Home
  2. Historical Documents
  3. Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1940, General and Europe, Volume II
  4. Efforts by the United States to secure adequate supplies of raw materials for defense purposes:

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

Efforts by the United States to secure adequate supplies of raw materials for defense purposes:


Contents

    • 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)

          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
          • Index

          Persons

          Abbreviations & Terms

          Historical Documents

          • About the Foreign Relations Series
          • Status of the Foreign Relations Series
          • History of the Foreign Relations Series
          • Foreign Relations Ebooks
          • Other Electronic Resources
          • Guide to Sources on Vietnam, 1969-1975
          • Citing the Foreign Relations series

            Learn more

          • Home
          • Search
          • FAQ

            Topics

          • Historical Documents
          • Department History
          • Countries

            Contact

          • About Us
          • Contact Us

            Policies

          • Accessibility Statement
          • Privacy Policy
          • External Link Policy
          • Copyright Information
          • Content Warning

          Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute
          United States Department of State

          history@state.gov

          Phone: 202-955-0200

          Fax: 202-955-0268

          Report an issue on this page