Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1939, The American Republics, Volume V

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Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, by the Chief of the Division of the American Republics (Duggan)

[Washington,] December 22, 1939.

Mr. Pierre Boal, Counselor of the Embassy in Mexico City, stated that Señor Fernandez del Castillo had informed him that he had sounded out the German Minister with regard to the purchase of the seven German ships still remaining in Mexican waters. The German Minister was said to have replied that if a “fair offer” were made, it would probably be accepted.