Office of the Historian

833.61311/4–2446

The Ambassador in Uruguay (Dawson) to the Secretary of State

Montevideo, April 24, 1946.
[Received April 24—11:05 a.m.]

255. By decree yesterday Government ordered expropriation of all stocks of wheat and wheat flour and intervention of all establishments dealing in OEE milling wheat. Intervention contemplates extensive [Page 1291] measures for regulating milling use of flour and distribution of wheat and wheat products. For present holders of wheat and flour are prohibited from supplying customers more than 66% of 1945 average deliveries. Text by airmail.

Dawson