File No. 763.72115/3164
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Sweden ( Morris)
293. Your 532, July 13. Request Foreign Office to state immediately to Sublime Porte that a misunderstanding appears to exist. This Government cannot under the President’s proclamation of April 6, relative to alien enemies, prevent the departure of Turkish subjects from the United States, and in fact does not do so. Turkish subjects are not considered alien enemies, and they will be furnished with safe-conduct upon application to leave. This Government, however, cannot undertake to act as intermediary in procuring for nonofficial Turkish subjects, safe-conducts from other governments; these should be subject of negotiations direct with the governments concerned. In view of the above it is confidently expected that the Turkish Government will now place no obstacle to the immediate departure of Americans from Turkey.