File No. 701.6711/134
The Spanish Ambassador ( Riaño ) to the Secretary of State
Mr. Secretary: I have, as guardian of the interests of Turkey in the United States, the honor to apply to Your Excellency with a request that you be pleased to use your good offices with the Allied Powers in obtaining a safe-conduct for Constantin Mavroudi Effendi, [Page 247] late Second Secretary of the Imperial Ottoman Embassy at Washington, Djélal Bey, Ottoman ex-Consul General at New York and Madame Djélal Bey, his wife, on their trip from the United States to Constantinople.
I should also be extremely obliged to Your Excellency if you would procure like guarantees for four Turkish students of the Columbia University of New York, who wish to return to their native land. They are: Abdullah Hamdi, his wife and son; Ahmed Chukri and wife; Djevad Eyoub, and Nicholas Aghnides.
I avail myself [etc.]