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File No. 367.11/2154

The Minister in Sweden ( Morris) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Stockholm, July 17, 1917.
[Received July 18, 12.40 a.m.]

546. From Constantinople:

Referring to my telegram of July 11 concerning departure of Americans. It is essential to arrange matter quickly, as the Sublime [Page 254] Porte is pressing for immediate departure of all Americans from interior now in Constantinople and threatening internment or other disagreeable measures if they do not promptly leave. Required permission has not yet come from Vienna, but it is daily expected. Please telegraph me as soon as possible decision of American Government concerning permission for departure of Turkish students or other Ottomans desiring to leave America. Ahlgren, Chargé d’Affaires.1

Morris
  1. Probably refers to message transmitted in telegram of July 13 from Minister Morris, ante, p. 252.↩
  2. Of the Swedish Legation in Turkey.↩