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

ced that the British Government is to purchase as a war measure the whole British West African cocoa crop for 1939/40. The prices to producers will be on a basis of 9 shillings per load for Gold Coast fermented and 16 pounds 10 shillings per ton for Nigerian f. a. q. cocoa ex scale port of shipment. The crop will be handled by shippers already established in the trade who will act as agents for the Government, purchases by each shipper to be allocated mainly on a quota system based on purchases in the last three seasons or in the case of smaller shippers in the last season only. Distribution a…

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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	1939-11-16
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1940, The British Commonwealth, The Soviet Union, The Near Ea
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1940v03/d105
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Record ID	`frus:frus1940v03/d105`

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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:frus1940v03/d105.