811.20(D)Regulations/2942: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Iran (Dreyfus)
53. Your no. 61, June 23, 11 a.m. and no. 72, July 14, 10 a.m. Please inform the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs that the Department is disposed to facilitate the shipment of such articles and materials to Iran as are not urgently required by this Government for the carrying out of its own defense program and for the needs of those governments which we are assisting in resisting aggression. In view, however, of the situation described in the Department’s no. 43, June 20, 5 p.m., the Iranian Government should understand that it cannot count upon the United States as a complete source of supply during the present emergency.
You may inform the Acting Minister that the Iranian Legation here is handling these matters efficiently in close cooperation with the appropriate officers of the Department and that requests of the character contained in your telegram under acknowledgment should be taken up through the Iranian Legation here and not through our Legation in Tehran.