711.52/368: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Spain (Hayes)
567. Your 682, February 28, 5 p.m. Your exposition of proposal re wolfram (your paragraph 1) is not clear. Department understands this to mean Germany will get no more wolfram during 6 months counting from date of agreement and thereafter in 1944 will receive no more than approximately 10 tons (300 tons already received plus 10 tons equals 10 percent of 3,100 tons).
If this understanding is correct you may authorize sailings when agreement is reached beyond possibility of equivocation. However the Department will have to consider your proposal to resume shipments on a scale to compensate for a period of suspension.
The Department is not prepared to make a public statement prior to complete agreement.