867.48/1100: Telegram

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

4347. Your 2920, November 20th, 3 p.m. I have just received a note from the Foreign Office of which the following is the substance:

“December 3. In reply to your note of November 21, I have the honor to inform you that His Majesty’s Government cordially welcome this proposal and are prepared to afford a mission of this character every assistance in their power.

His Majesty’s High Commissioner at Constantinople has been instructed in this sense by telegraph and is being authorized more particularly to arrange for British officers to be attached to the various branches of the expedition on its arrival, in accordance with a plan which is understood to have been already agreed upon between [Admiral] Webb and Doctor Gates.11

His Majesty’s Government will endeavor to insure that the efforts of the American Mission are supported from the south by the independent action of the administration of the British Armenian fund.”

Laughlin
  1. Caleb F. Gates, President of Robert College, Constantinople.