Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1932, The British Commonwealth, Europe, Near East and Africa, Volume II

890b.6363 Gulf Oil Corporation/35: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Great Britain (Atherton)

Washington, March 7, 1932—6 p.m.

82. Your 89, February 26, 4 p.m. For your information. Chargé d’Affaires at Baghdad⁷ reports he has learned from a confidential source in Kuwait that the Shaikh has secretly signed a document granting Anglo-Persian Oil Company an oil concession covering the Shaikdom.

Stimson

7. Alexander K. Sloan.