867.4016/743: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Herrick) to the Secretary of State
Paris, November 22,
1922—4 p.m.
[Received November 22—2:26 p.m.]
[Received November 22—2:26 p.m.]
481. Your 391 November 21, 6 p.m. Foreign Office is receiving similar reports from Syria. French Government realizes that Turks are determined to expel all Christians from Turkish territory but has no intention of using anything but diplomacy to solve the problem. It is hoped that something to alleviate the situation may be accomplished at Lausanne although there appears to exist no very sanguine confidence that the present attitude of the Turks in this respect will be altered.
Repeated to American Mission Lausanne.
Herrick