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The First Secretary of the British Embassy ( Wright ) to the Assistant Secretary of State ( Berle )

freight. Such official passengers or freight are not, of course, necessarily military , and a civilian passenger may well be much more important than a given military passenger from the point of view of the war effort. Second Statement —“At Kano in Nigeria there are said to be 150 tons of spare parts for British aircraft awaiting transport, which are never picked up by B.O.A.C. planes.” His Majesty’s Government are, of course, aware of the large accumulation of dead load awaiting onward conveyance at Kano. Recently the accumulation has been considerably reduced by the intensification of Ensign…

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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	1943-07-07
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1943, The Near East and Africa, Volume IV
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1943v04/d765
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Record ID	`frus:frus1943v04/d765`

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The First Secretary of the British Embassy ( Wright ) to the Assistant Secretary of State ( Berle ). Foreign Relations of the United States, 1943. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1943v04/d765.