811.20 Defense (M)/7337: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Gauss)
567. Your 723, June 19, 10 a.m.22 Pending completion of a full report on silk, Combined Raw Materials Board has adopted an interim decision incorporating certain recommendations substance of which is as follows:
Available raw silk, waste silk, and noils in North and South America are to be at the disposal of the United States and the United Kingdom is not to purchase in those markets. Similarly, United States is to refrain from purchases in China, India, Africa, and the Near and Middle East, where purchases are to be made by the British only. Each country will notify the other of any available quantities of silk in excess of its own requirements and will purchase for the other on specific terms.
You need not, therefore, pursue matter further for the present.
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