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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Acting Secretary of State
The British Ambassador called to see me this morning at his request.
The Ambassador referred to the situation in Turkey and expressed the hope that inasmuch as he was given to understand that the Turkish Ambassador in Washington had reported to his Government that it was unlikely that any further assistance to Turkey under the Lend-Lease Act would now be forthcoming in view of the Turkish-German nonaggression pact, the American Ambassador in Ankara be instructed to make it clear to the Turkish Government that this would not be the case. The British Government strongly urged that we deal with the Turkish Government as they themselves were dealing with it, namely as if nothing had occurred to change the relations between the two countries.