File No. 763.72119/953
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page )
5930. Your 7782.1 For your information. The conclusion of a separate peace with Turkey is regarded as chimerical and of questionable advantage even if it could be accomplished. At the conference which closes the war arrangements must be made with regard to Constantinople which could not be made if peace were first declared with Turkey. At the present time separate peace could only be made which would preclude any radical changes of control over Constantinople and the Straits. It appears, therefore, to this Government that the only advantage to be gained by separate peace with Turkey now would be to prevent the bargains of the Allies with regard to Asia Minor from being carried out at the end of the war.