890D.00/720: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Beirut (Palmer)
Your June 29, 3 p.m. The Department considers that forcible occupation of the Princeton expedition field headquarters in the Sanjak by Turkish troops would be a violation of Article 3 of the Convention between the United States and France regarding Rights in Syria and the Lebanon. You should inform the High Commissioner to this effect and request him to take such steps as may become necessary to protect the vested American property rights involved unless in the opinion of the expedition authorities such action on your part might be prejudicial to their long range interests.