890g.01/229: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Dawes)
317. Your 338, November 22, 11 a.m. and 343, November 24, 11 a.m.20 You should inform the Foreign Office that the Department perceives no objection to the form or content of the note which Jafar Pasha proposes to address to you upon the signature of the tripartite convention, and that accordingly you have been authorized, upon receipt of the note, to reply textually as follows:
“I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency’s note of today’s date, which reads as follows: (Here insert the body of Jafar Pasha’s proposed note.)
In taking note of this communication, I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my high consideration.”
- Latter not printed.↩