611.6731/103: Telegram
The Ambassador in Turkey ( Grew ) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:30 p.m.]
67. Referring to the Department’s telegram 37, April 13, 6 p.m., section 5,24 and my telegram 63, April 29 [28?], 11 a.m.
The Foreign Office has informally submitted a draft text recommended for use in exchange of notes prolonging commercial modus vivendi. This text is identical with the note dated July 20, 1926, signed by Admiral Bristol,25 enclosed with the Embassy’s despatch 2008, July 30, 1926,26 with the following exceptions:27
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Department may wish to consider whether the following clause from the second of the two notes exchanged on February 17, 1927,28 should be inserted in line 2 in French: “Pending the coming into effect of the commercial convention referred to in subparagraph (a) of paragraph (2) of the notes exchanged today (on February 17, 1927) concerning the relations between the United States and Turkey or.”
Please instruct.
- Ante, p. 943.↩
- Not printed; but see Foreign Relations, 1926, vol. ii, p. 1000, footnote 39.↩
- Ibid., p. 1000.↩
- For revised version as signed, see p. 953.↩
- Foreign Relations, 1927, vol. iii, pp. 797 ff.↩