867.48/1093a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Great Britain ( Laughlin )9

2920. American Committee Armenian and Syrian Belief, a long established relief society operating in Asia Minor with the support and approval of this Government, desires to undertake at once relief measures for rehabilitation of the oppressed nationalities of Turkish Empire in Constantinople and Asia Minor. It proposes to despatch a ship with a cargo of foodstuffs, clothing, agricultural machinery, seed, medical supplies and the like, together with some 300 doctors, relief workers, mechanics, agriculturalists and so forth. The ship would sail from an American Atlantic port through the Dardanelles to a port on the coast of Armenia, and there discharge its supplies and personnel.

Please so inform Foreign Office, stating that this plan enjoys complete approbation this Government and is part of Hoover’s food scheme, and inquire if any objection exists on part of British authorities to proposed action by the Committee.

Mutatis mutandis to Paris as No. 6352.

Lansing
  1. See last paragraph for instructions to repeat to Paris as No. 6352.