Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1922, Volume II

867.4016/717

The International Committee of the Red Cross to the Department of State

[Translation¹⁹]

Geneva , October 20, 1922 .
[Received November 2.]

Gentlemen: We have the honor to forward herewith to you the various letters²⁰ we have exchanged with the Foreign Office about the organization of the Relief Mission to Anatolia and Thrace, with which the International Committee of the Red Cross had been charged by the American, British, French, and Italian Governments.

The International Committee of the Red Cross did not fail to take all necessary steps to that effect, but has not yet received from Angora the needed permissions to accomplish the above-mentioned mission.

The International Committee of the Red Cross takes this opportunity to thank the Department of State for the confidence which the Department, jointly with the British, French, and Italian Governments, was pleased to place in it by charging it with that eminently humanitarian duty.

We beg [etc]

Lucien Brunel

Secretary General of the Mission Service

19. File translation revised.
20. Not printed.