Office of the Historian

711.6712A/20: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Turkey (Grew)

Washington, June 25, 1928—5 p.m.

55. Your 83, June 24, noon. Suggest that last sentence of draft personal letter quoted in paragraph 7 be amended to read as follows:

“While I feel sure that, as a result of my explanations, my Government will have a perfectly clear conception of Your Excellency’s point of view, I can hold out no hope that it will consent to the changes suggested in your personal letter of June 19, 1928.”

With this change and provided you see no objection, I shall be glad to have you address the proposed personal letter to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.18

Kellogg
  1. The Ambassador’s personal letter, embodying the proposed change, was communicated to the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs on June 26, 1928.↩