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...Spain, the U.S. was equally firm. When Ambassador Don Juan Francisco de Cardenas called at the State Department, he was bluntly told that the U.S. oil embargo on Spain will continue until Spain meets U.S. demands. Most important demands still to be met: 1) an embargo on Spanish wolfram; 2) expulsion of Nazi agents from Tangiers and the fringes of Gibraltar (TIME...
After weighing the evidence, Franco decided to sign a 100-million Reichsmark credit agreement with the Nazis, ostensibly liquidating his debt to Hitler for services rendered during the Spanish Civil War, actually enabling Germany to secure fresh supplies of strategic materials. Probable first German purchase: 800 tons of precious wolfram now stored on the French border and needed for armor-piercing steel. Probable second purchase: more wolfram, stored in Spain...
...WOLFRAM HILL...
Allied air headquarters in North Africa reported that famed Baron Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen, a remote cousin of the World War I hero, had been sent to the Mediterranean to command Kesselring's air forces. The Allied statement said that Kesselring and Richthofen had quarreled before, suggested that they may be quarreling...
...return for oil sold to Spain, the U.S. gets substantial amounts of various strategic materials, including mercury, cork and wolfram (for tungsten...