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

740.0011 European War 1939/12279: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France ( Leahy )¹³

Washington , June 24, 1941—8 p.m.

507. Following telegram dated June 21 has been received from Beirut:

[Here follows text of telegram No. 233, June 21, 8 a.m., printed on page 746.]

You are requested, unless you perceive objection, to bring this suggestion to the attention of the French Government, stating that the American Government would of course be pleased to lend its facilities for effecting any arrangement which might serve to prevent the destruction of lives and property in Beirut, a city with which the United States has many connections of a cultural and intellectual nature.

The Embassy in London has been authorized, in its discretion, to bring the above suggestion to the attention of the British Government in a similar manner.

Welles

13. The same, mutatis mutandis, was sent on the same date to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom as telegram No. 2276.