390D.11/175: Telegram
The Chargé in Turkey (Kelley) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2:40 p.m.]
88. The Department’s instruction No. 376, of May 26, 1939.8 The solution now under consideration in the Foreign Office does not contemplate the active participation of the Department except for its cooperation in notifying the appropriate Syrian Associations that the persons affected should present themselves at the Turkish Consulate General to give the details of identification required by Turkish law. On the basis of such appearances lists will be prepared by the Turkish Consulate General and forwarded to Ankara for “automatic action by the Ministry of the Interior.”
The Foreign Office is also endeavoring to arrive at a formula acceptable to the Ministry of the Interior which will include not only the persons referred to in the exchange of notes under consideration but also the wives and minor children of such persons.
The Foreign Office officials concerned will meet the Minister of the Interior shortly for what they hope will prove to be the final conference.
- Not printed; it transmitted to the Ambassador in Turkey the memoranda dated May 12 and May 17, supra.↩