751.67/260: Telegram
The Ambassador in Turkey (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 25—4 p.m.]
78. My telegram No. 75, May 15, 7 p.m. From informal conversations with members of both the French Embassy and the Foreign Office it appears that the settlement of the Hatay question still awaits agreement upon a number of incidental matters of detail which may require some weeks more.
The French particularly seem anxious to forestall complications incidental to the change of sovereignty and have hinted that it would now be opportune for us to broach to them any definite points concerning which we wish clarification or assurances. Although it seems that the general question of foreign rights and interests is receiving particular consideration and that American archaeological interests are being borne in mind by both parties, I suggest that I be authorized to take up formally with the French Embassy the questions raised in the enclosure to the Department’s instruction No. 362, March 21,9 with special reference to the provisions of article XIV of the Mandate.
Repeated to Paris, Beirut.
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