711.67/105: Telegram
The Minister Resident in Iraq (Knabenshue) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 2—1:41 p.m.]
1. Referring to my telegram No. 120 of December 17, 7 p.m.2 The Turkish Minister2a called today to inform me that his Government after receiving his full mail reports of the situation in Iraq, instructed him to inform the Iraqi Minister for Foreign Affairs that Turkish Government was glad to receive from the Iraq Minister at Ankara the assurance that the information received by the Turkish Government regarding the unhappy relations between Iraq and Great Britain was unfounded and to say to the Iraqi Foreign Minister that Turkey, faithful to its pact of Ankara with Great Britain3 and the Saadabad Pact with Iraq,4 would be happy to see relations between Great Britain and Iraq established on a basis of friendship and mutual welfare and understanding.
- Ibid., p. 722.↩
- H. Cavad Üstün.↩
- Treaty of Mutual Assistance, signed October 19, 1939, League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. cc, p. 167.↩
- Treaty of Non-Aggression, signed July 8, 1937, by Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey; for text, see League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. cxc, p. 21.↩