890d.00/256: Telegram

The Consul at Beirut (Knabenshue) to the Secretary of State

Reference telegram from Embassy at Paris to the Department, number 561, November 13, noon. Situation rapidly growing more serious generally and in Lebanon in particular. Need for destroyers even more necessary now [than] heretofore. Please postpone action on Embassy’s telegram until receipt of details in telegrams following out a few hours later.

Knabenshue