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57 STAT.] DOMINICAN REPUBLIC--SURPLUS FOOD PRODUCTS-JUNE 10, 1943 Rice: Baduf M. Dumit & Co ................. 3, 000 quintals This rice is consigned to Aruba and of this quantity 1,500 quintals are being shipped today, from the Monte Cristi dock. (2) The acceptance which the Dominican Government gives is with the understanding that the competent authorities of the Government of the United States of America will lift the suspension they have placed on the export licenses and priorities granted for the shipment to the Dominican Government of the agricultural machinery and equipment for the intensification and development of agriculture in our country, the acquisition of which was contracted by the Domini- can Government under Project No. 11 of Credit No. 266 granted by the Export-Import Bank of Washington, which project has been approved in the amount of $300,000. Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration. A. DESPRADEL His Excellency AVRA M. WARREN, Ambassador Extraordinaryand Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, Embassy. 1151