Office of the Historian

811.20 Defense (M) Turkey/313: Telegram

The Ambassador in Turkey (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State

Ankara, February 5, 1943—4 p.m.
[Received February 6—5:24 a.m.]

233. My 226, February 4, paragraph 2.47 The Foreign Office has directed that the cars carrying 450 tons of chrome ore from the Guleman Mines and destined for Germany which are still in Turkey be stopped in transit and returned to the mines. The 1500–ton Turkish ship rumored to load chrome at Fethiye for Germany has not yet arrived at Fethiye and there is no present indication as to when vessel will arrive.

Steinhardt
  1. Not printed; the paragraph read: “One month has passed since expiration of our contract yet only movement of chrome intended for Germany that we know of is 450 tons from Guleman which has been thwarted by a protest to Foreign Office as coming from our stocks and a 1500–ton Turk ship rumored to load at Fethiye ‘in the next 10 days’”. (811.20 Defense (M) Turkey/307)↩