390D.11/195: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Turkey ( MacMurray )
26. Your 41, April 17, 5 p.m. The Department would not be able to accept article 6 of the Turkish draft since we are prevented, by a [Page 1007] long-established principle of American law, from entering into an agreement specifically providing for a discrimination between naturalized and native-born American citizens as regards their rights abroad, which include their right of entry into a foreign country. This aspect has been discussed fully with the Turkish Ambassador here, who agrees that the language proposed in the Department’s instruction of January 19 would assure to either Government entire freedom of action with regard to the entry of aliens into its territory and that it should be satisfactory to his Government.
Should the Turkish authorities entertain any doubts as to the meaning of our proposed language, you are authorized to include in a subsidiary exchange of notes or in a procès-verbal a statement to the effect that the American Government understands article — of the agreement to be a recognition of the fact that each Government enjoys entire freedom of action with regard to the entry of all aliens into its territory. This fact is recognized in the Treaty of Establishment and Sojourn now in effect between the United States and Turkey and is reasserted at the request of the Turkish Government.