Office of the Historian

890D.00/711: Telegram

The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State

Paris, June 17, 1938—noon.
[Received June 17—7:35 a.m.]

951. Department’s 368, June 14, 4 p.m. Lagarde42 stated yesterday evening that he could not conceive any development in connection with current Franco-Turkish negotiations that might jeopardize rights of American institutions under article 14 of the Syrian Mandate. He said that we could rest assured that the rights of our archeological expedition would not be adversely affected.

At his request the substance of the Department’s telegram No. 368 was left with him in writing to be used in connection with instructions which he promised to send to Martel.43

Bullitt
  1. Ernest Lagarde, Chief of the Africa-Levant Section of the French Foreign Office.↩
  2. Damien de Martel, French High Commissioner in Syria and the Lebanon.↩