811.20 Defense (M) Turkey/349: Telegram

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

311. Embassy’s 226 February 4.57 The Assistant General Manager of the Eti Bank in charge of chrome matters states that Turkish authorities have not yet issued export licenses to the Germans for more than 500 tons of chrome. So far as the Embassy is aware no chrome has as yet left Turkey for Germany.

He confirmed the information contained in the Embassy’s 233 February 5 by apologetically explaining that the shipment in question had been started due to a misunderstanding of instructions at the mine.

Steinhardt
  1. See footnote 47, p. 1152.