Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson; Wells Stabler; John Cunningham, W. R. Grace & Company; and J. Walter Juckett, Treasurer of the Sandy Hill Iron and Brass Works
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
ARCHIVES 'NATIONAL AND
RECORDS
Memorandum of Conversation
960
DATE:
April 22, 1952
SUBJECT:
142
Construction of Paper Products Plant in Egypt.
PARTICIPANTS:
The Secretary
Mr. John Cunningham, of W.R.Grace & Co.
Mr. J. Walter Juckett, Treasurer, The Sandy Hill Iron and Brass Works,
Hudson Falls, N.Y.
NE - Mr. Wells Stabler.
COPIES TO:
American Embassy, Cairo
Export-Import Bank
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ME/E
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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
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Mr. Cunningham and Mr. Juckett called on me at their request this afternoon.
Mr. Cunningham asked Mr. Juckett to explain the interest of the Sandy Hill Iron
and Brass Works in the construction of the paper products plant near Cairo.
Mr. Juckett said several years ago Abboud Pasha, leading Egyptian indus-
trialist, filed an application with the Export-Import Bank for a loan of $3,919,000
to finance the dollar cost of constructing a paper products plant near Cairo.
Abboud Pasha had been in the United States last year and had held discussions
with the Export-Import Bank, It was Mr. Juckett's understanding that the matter
had been near decision at that time but that there had been no further develop-
ments since Abboud Pasha's visit.
Mr. Juckett said that it is the intention of his firm to build a plant
which would use Egyptian sugar cane bagasse as a raw material and would employ
a process developed by the W. R. Grace Company in Paramonga, Peru. Some samples
of Egyptian sugar cane bagasse had been sent to the United States for tests
and had been found satisfactory for this process. Mr. Juckett said that the
material for the construction of the plant was available and would probably
not require priorities. However, once the loan was approved it would require
some twelve months before the machinery could be shipped. Mr. Juckett stressed
the importance of the paper plant to the Egyptian economy as well as to the
economy of the Near Eastern countries which rely upon Egypt for the printing
of their newspapers and books. Mr. Juckett added that a representative of
his firm had recently been in cairo but had not been able to consult with
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Ambassador/
Ex O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 3(D) or
Dapr. of Scase letter, 5/2-26
HC : MARS 7-15-76
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