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

.) Clauson said that he would discuss this with the Treasury, but at the same time voiced it as his personal opinion that relinquishing some claim to Bolivian tin would cause no real embarrassment to the British smelter, since it could keep going on Nigerian and Congo tin ore. When we mentioned the possibility that, under the “quantity” provision for the Metals Reserve Company contract of November 4, 1940, the Bolivians might in certain circumstances have the right themselves to reduce their sales to the Metals Reserve Company below 18,000 tons and have an interest in doing so (the circumstanc…

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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	1941-04-03
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1941, General, The Soviet Union, Volume I
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1941v01/d519
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Record ID	`frus:frus1941v01/d519`

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The Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Winant ) to the Secretary of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1941. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1941v01/d519.