791.003/121: Telegram
The Minister in Persia (Philip) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 16—11:20 a.m.]
56. Reference my 55, May 14, 2 p.m. Notes dated May 14 were today exchanged between me and the Persian Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs. A translation of his note reads as follows:46
“In reply to your request relative to American missionaries, I have the honor to inform you that they will be permitted to carry [Page 721] on their charitable and educational work on the condition that it contravenes neither the public order nor the laws and regulations of Persia.”
These letters in substance are the same as those which were exchanged with the British Minister, and since the wording of the assurance is rather more inclusive here than in the original draft note of declarations on safeguards and of equal value, I am hopeful that the Department may approve the action taken.
- Quotation not paraphrased.↩