891.711/9
The Secretary of State to the Postmaster General (Farley)
My Dear Mr. Postmaster General: Reference is made to recent telephone conversations between Mr. Stewart M. Weber, Assistant Director of the Division of International Postal Service of your Department, and an official of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs of this Department regarding the non-delivery of American second-class mail in Iran, and there are transmitted herewith for your confidential information copies of a despatch dated April 15, 1936, and of a portion of a despatch dated May 15, 1936, on this subject received from the American Legation in Teheran.
[Page 381]The telegram of April 6, 1936, to which reference is made in the despatch of April 15, merely made mention of the fact that all secondclass mail entering Iran was being held for examination.
The most recent information received in this connection was a telegram from the Legation in Teheran dated June 619 in which it was stated that delivery of certain unspecified types of American second class mail had been renewed.
The Department would be pleased to receive any observations which the Post Office Department may care to make in this connection to the end that appropriate instructions may be sent to the Chargé d’Affaires ad interim at Teheran in the event that the Iranian authorities should show a disposition to maintain a discriminatory prohibition on American second-class mail.
Sincerely yours,
Under Secretary
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