767.68119/30: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Herrick) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2:50 p.m.]
432. Your 327 October 19, 7 p.m.5 Foreign Office informs me that no preliminary conversations between the Allied Powers have been held concerning the Near East settlement except in regard to place, date and invitations to be issued. It is practically settled that the conference will take place at Lausanne on November 13th. It is planned to have two conferences, one for the peace treaty and revision of the Treaty of Sevres in which the Principal Allied Powers and Turkey will participate and the other for the settlement of the question of the freedom of the Straits at which certain additional interested powers will participate.
Up to the present there has been no intimation by the French Government that the United States will be invited to participate.
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