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The Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Kennedy ) to the Secretary of State

would defer its purchases. 2. By a Board of Trade order export licenses for metallic tin are now suspended. The Colonial Office states that this is a temporary measure occasioned by the shortage of metal in this market, that considerable amounts of Nigerian ore are on the way, as to that it is expected that Bolivian shipments will follow. When these supplies of ore can be refined and the shortage thus relieved the order will be rescinded. 3. I have obtained authentic information from a source which cannot be specified that the Dutch have agreed to the British proposal referred to in my 2197 of…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1939-10-31
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1939, General, Volume I
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1939v01/d1028
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Record ID	`frus:frus1939v01/d1028`

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The Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Kennedy ) to the Secretary of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1939. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1939v01/d1028.