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are still applicable, and the quantity of helium therein 
requested was not then, and is not now, considered to be of
military consequence, nor inimical to our national defense.
 
 
Sincerely yours,
 
 
CLAUDE A. SWANSON
 
 
 
Hon. Harold L. Ickes, 
 
Secretary of the Interior.