Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, (In two parts), Part II

The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Leishman.

[Extract.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 12, 1906.

No. 72.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 63, of the 18th ultimo, reporting the refusal of the Turkish authorities in Asia Minor to deliver teskerés to the Rev. James L. Fowle and Mr. MacDowell, and the action taken by the embassy in the matter.

The department commends your efforts to obtain travel permits for American missionaries. You should continue to remonstrate urgently against placing all American missionaries under a ban, thus implying a national discrimination in which we can not acquiesce.

I am, sir, etc.,

Robert Bacon.