Lewine v. National City Bank

During the war ordinary commercial transactions between the United States and Russia were interrupted. No Russian citizen might at will convert rubles into dollars to be expended here. And what might be bought was limited to those things likely to aid in the conflict. If such purchases were to be made, permission of the government was required. Application was to a bureau of the Ministry of Finance — called here the Chancellery — for the creation of a dollar fund in New York. It stated the amount required, the bank where it was to be deposited, the kind of goods to be bought, and often, at…