Office of the Historian

711.673/85: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Sweden (Morris)7

Washington, March 20, 1919, 5 p.m.

1569. Please request Swedish Government instruct Royal Legation at Constantinople to communicate following to Turkish Government: “United States Government has been informed of recent action which Allied High Commissioners have taken with the Turkish Government concerning Capitulations. United States Government desires it to be understood that it fully concurs in the action taken by the Entente High Commissioners, in order to put an end to the illegal interference of the Turkish Government in the application of the Capitulations.”

Polk
  1. Substance transmitted on the same date, in telegram No. 50, to the Commissioner at Constantinople, with instructions to notify Allied High Commissioners.↩