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

740.0011 European War 1939/17227

The Chief of the Government of Lebanon (Naccache) to the American Consul General at Beirut (Engert)³³

[Translation]

259/C

Beirut, July 18, 1941.

Mr. Consul General: I am happy to assure you of the gratitude of the Lebanese people for the interest you took in them at the time of the air raids on Beirut and for your effective intervention with the competent authorities.

To these thanks should be added my own pleasure at having established with you personal relations full of cordiality and esteem of which I shall keep the most pleasant memory.

I hope that this happy collaboration in the interest of the public welfare will become still closer in the future.

Please accept [etc.]

A. Naccache

33. Transmitted to the Department by the Consul General in his despatch No. 112, July 20; received December 9.