701.0667/4: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the High Commissioner in Turkey ( Bristol )
44. Your telegram No. 55 dated June 22, 3 p.m. Your recommendation to join your colleagues in signing a collective note to the Turkish Government requesting that diplomatic and consular officers be exempted from the payment of consumption and other special taxes recently enacted is approved by the Department.
The Department presumes that in making a recommendation in this sense you have given due consideration to the difference between your status and that of your colleagues in Turkey and that you think a collective note is the best means of protecting American interests in this case.