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The Ethyl Export Corporation has asked me the following further
questions:
At what date does Ethyl G.m.b.H. need the goods; to which I
answered that, for us, the earliest date possible would be desirable.
The subject of the second question was when the goods can be returned.
I answered that at present I could not tell, but that I supposed that the
return could be effected at the end of 1939. This is not a definite date. I
intentionally did not indicate a later date, however, in order not to make the
affair more difficult. Besides, we may suppose that by that time all
difficulties will have been overcome through the start of operations in the
second plant.
I considered it right to complete the affair with the
Ethyl Export Corporation today because I presume that, although some points may
still have to be settled, the Reich Air Ministry wants an immediate decision.
Now the technical question of storing the 500 tons has still to be
settled. The goods become the property of the Ethyl G.m.b.H. which must
therefore shoulder the responsibility for the correct storage of the product.
As the Gapel plant, which is being considered, has no facilities for storing
such large quantities, other storage places must be arranged, for instance fuel
storage depots might be considered. If the Reich Air Ministry should want to
have a say concerning the site of the depots, I beg that consideration should
be given as to whether the Reich Air Ministry will itself enter into the
picture, which would, perhaps, not be quite appropriate because, until now, we
have treated the whole affair merely from a standpoint of private enterprise in
the business interests of Ethyl G.m.b.H. Towards our foreign partners, we
maintained the view that the addition of tetraethyl lead to automobile gasoline
depends on a sufficient stock of tetraethyl lead in Germany. At any rate, Mr.
R. Morgenthaler of Ethyl G.m.b.H., Berlin NW 7, Unter Den Linden 24, is
available for the discussion of all questions of storage, and is also already
informed that he will have to take all the steps needed to promote this
transaction.
Various expenses for Ethyl G.m.b.H. will result from this
matter. However, it seems inexpedient to me to arrange already today in what
way these expenses will be paid back to Ethyl G.m.b.H. The reason for this is
that we have carried on the negotiations with the foreign partners from quite a
different point of view, as mentioned above. For that reason it seems expedient
to me to postpone this matter for the time being. |
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Heil Hitler!
Signed: MUELLER-CUNRADI |
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