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Memorandum of Long Distance Telephone Conversation, by Mr. Leonard H. Price of the Division of Caribbean Affairs
| Participants: | Ambassador Butler |
| Mr. Walker—CRB |
In the course of a conversation on various subjects, Mr. Walker took occasion to inform Ambassador Butler that his recent proposal to use sugar purchases by this government in Cuba as a leverage with which; to effect the prompt settlement of certain outstanding problems between the United States and Cuba had been discussed among the officers of the Department of State, the Department of Agriculture, and the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) in the Department of Agriculture yesterday. He said that the conclusion reached in that meeting was that since the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) would not have occasion to purchase more than 300,000 tons of sugar, and since ECA contemplated purchases by the beneficiary European countries of only a very small quantity, none of these purchases would serve the purposes contemplated by Ambassador Butler . . . .
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