Office of the Historian

467.11/726: Telegram

The Ambassador in Turkey (Skinner) to the Acting Secretary of State

Istanbul, November 21, 1933—noon.
[Received 1:10 p.m.]

46. From Shaw. “Secretary General Ministry of Foreign Affairs tells me informally that at meetings to take place at Angora in a few days Turks will propose lump sum claims settlement of $500,000. In answer to my question he said that he thought there were only one or two small Turkish claims against the United States.”

Skinner