891.51A/400: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Persia (Philip)
47. In view of fact that Persian Government has construed Legation’s note of August 11 in sense quite alien to intentions of the United States Government as conveyed in Department’s 37, August 2, 5 p.m., and in order to correct this misunderstanding, the Department now sanctions recall at your discretion of the note and of the supplementary aide-mémoire referred to in Legation’s telegram 59, [Page 561] September 1. Should you exercise these discretionary powers, you are instructed to communicate to Acting Foreign Minister by word of mouth the Department’s explanation as above stated, and you may add any other explanations as may seem to you proper. You will not, however, permit yourself to be drawn into discussion of position American Government may hereafter adopt toward American advisers in Persian service.