Office of the Historian

611.6731/343a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Turkey (Kelley)

Washington, March 7, 1938—noon.

26. Henry J. Wadleigh of the Division of Trade Agreements, Department of State, and Mr. Norman R. Burns of the United States Tariff Commission have been designated members of the delegation to negotiate a trade agreement with Turkey at Ankara. They will sail from New York on the S. S. Washington on March 9. Mr. Gillespie, who will be the Department of Commerce’s member on the delegation, will sail on the S. S. Bremen on March 12. All will arrive in Ankara before March 28. Negotiations should commence if possible on that day, and you are requested to make all necessary arrangements to this end, including hotel reservations. Kelley is hereby designated chief of the delegation and Gillespie5 his alternate.

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  1. Julian E. Gillespie, Commercial Attaché in Turkey.↩