871.5018/10–2046
The Secretary of State to the Rumanian Chargé (Riposanu)
The Secretary of State presents his compliments to the Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of Rumania and refers to his note of October 20, 1946 concerning a request for an allocation of corn from the United States.
The Secretary of Agriculture has been notified of the Rumanian Government’s request for procurement of 1,000,000 tons of corn. This request will be submitted by the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary General of the International Emergency Food Council where consideration will be given to including it with the import requirements of all other countries for bread grains.
This Government’s grain export program is determined after an examination of the relative needs of the various countries requesting supplies from the United States and after these needs have been considered by the Cereals Committee of the International Emergency Food Council, on which most of the major grain importing and exporting countries are represented. Export licenses are issued in accordance with this export program.
Although the production of grains in the United States has been extremely good during this crop year, the urgent requirements of many areas of Europe and Asia are so great that it is quite apparent that the available supply in the United States will not be adequate to fulfill the demands.
The Secretary of State wishes to assure the Rumanian Chargé d’Affaires that full consideration will be given to the Rumanian grain requirement by this Government in consultation with other members of the International Emergency Food Council.