Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1941, The British Commonwealth; The Near East and Africa, Volume III

891.248/125

Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs (Murray) to the Under Secretary of State (Welles)

[Extract]

[Washington,] July 14, 1941.

Mr. Welles: Co¹⁸ has interpreted your attached memorandum of a conversation with the British Ambassador on July 8¹⁹ regarding the granting of further export licenses for the shipment from the United States of aircraft to Iran as an instruction to terminate forthwith all such further shipments, and oral instructions have already been given to revoke certain licenses issued to the Curtiss-Wright Corporation authorizing the export of aircraft parts to Iran.

Would you please let me know whether you intended that such drastic action, including a ban on the exportation of aircraft parts, should be taken without further investigation of the situation existing at present in Iran.²⁰

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Wallace Murray

18. Division of Controls.
19. Supra.
20. Marginal note: “You may wish to explore this with the British Embassy—SW”.