700.00116 M.E./113a

The Secretary of State to the Amtorg Trading Corporation, New York, N. Y.

Sirs: Your attention is invited to the enclosed documents65 in regard to the policy of this Government in respect to the exportation of airplanes, aeronautical equipment, and materials essential to airplane manufacture to countries the armed forces of which are engaged in unprovoked bombing and machine-gunning of civilian populations from the air, and in regard to the exportation of certain listed commodities essential to the national defense.

In view of the fact that your company is an American corporation incorporated under the laws of New York, it is assumed and expected that you will wish to abide by the policies of this Government set forth in the enclosed documents. I should appreciate it if you would inform me that the Department is correct in this assumption and in this expectation.

Very truly yours,

For the Secretary of State:
Joseph C. Green
  1. None attached to file copy of this document. The enclosures were statements issued by the Army and Navy Munitions Board dated October 11, 1939, and January 19, 1940, Foreign Relations, 1939, vol. i, p. 855, and ibid., 1940, vol. ii, p. 252, respectively; the President’s statement of December 2, 1939, Department of State Bulletin, December 16, 1939, p. 686; and the Department of State’s press release of December 15, 1939, ibid., p. 685.