861.24/12–2846
The Chairman of the Government Purchasing Commission of the Soviet Union in the U.S.A. (Eremin) to the Lend-Lease Administrator (Lane)
Dear Mr. Lane: With reference to your letter of December 26, 1946, I wish to inform you that a check in the sum of $725,000.00 will be mailed on December 30, 1946, to the Lend-Lease Fiscal Operations [Page 865] Office, Treasury Department, Washington, 25, D.C., payable to the Treasurer of the United States.53
The aforementioned amount represents: (a) $100,000.00 to cover the cost of storage charges for two months; and (b) 2½ percent of $25,000,000.00 as the cost of material procured by the Treasury Department that will be incompleted and undelivered from the factory, or warehouse as point of origin, after December 31, 1946.
We are willing to discuss with you, at your earliest convenience, the exact method of readjusting the charge to our Government for the material covered by this arrangement. We should appreciate your advising us of the date when we may meet for this discussion.
Sincerely yours,
- Ambassador Smith was informed in telegram 2198, December 31, 1946, 5 p.m., to Moscow, that “our November 27 proposal regarding remaining deliveries under pipeline agreement of October 15, 1945” had been accepted, and therefore was no longer an issue (861.24/12–2746).↩