756.94/113: Telegram
The Consul General at Batavia (Dickover) to the Secretary of State
Batavia, May 22, 1940—7
p.m.
[Received May 22—5:45 p.m.]
[Received May 22—5:45 p.m.]
There has been a certain reluctance lately among the local officials to give this office information about stocks, etc., of export commodities [Page 22] especially tin and cinchona bark. Today this Consulate General learned from a responsible official that this reluctance is due to fear that the United States will buy up so much of the stocks on hand that Japan, which is insisting upon its economic dependence upon the Dutch East Indies, will be given real cause for alarm and possible action.
Dickover