Office of the Historian

740.00112 European War 1939/9877: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé to the Norwegian Government in Exile (Schoenfeld), at London

Washington, January 8, 1943 [1944]—4 p.m.

3. Norwegian Series. From Department and FEA.2 Regarding your Norwegian Series cable 20 of December 30,3 it will be agreeable to FEA and the Department that the matter of informing the Norwegians of our detailed objections to the Norsk-Hydro transaction be left to your discretion. After a study of the text of the note of the Norwegian Government of December 4 [November 29] 1943, on this subject, sent with your Despatch No. 71, Norwegian Series of December 4,4 we do not feel that any new arguments were advanced by the Norwegian Government to justify reversal of our former decision in the case. [Department and FEA.]

Hull
  1. Foreign Economic Administration.↩
  2. Foreign Relations, 1943, vol. ii, p. 495.↩
  3. Neither printed, but see telegram Norwegian Series 18, December 4, 1943, from London, ibid., p. 493.↩