891.24/205: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Iran ( Dreyfus )
158. Your despatch no. 272, May 28.22 We note that British Minister’s letter of May 27 to you lists 1 American and 7 British members of Central Supplies Committee and that apparently Iranians are not represented.
Your telegram 119, April 2323 proposed a committee composed of American and British Ministers and representatives of Iranian Ministries of Commerce and Finance, with other British representatives acting in an advisory capacity only, and it was on this basis that Department authorized your participation. (See Department’s 106, April 30.)24 Department’s suggestion that tires and other American supplies be distributed under supervision of Central Supplies Committee was made on understanding that Committee would be a joint Anglo-American-Iranian body. If this is not the case, we may have to reconsider our attitude.
Please telegraph exact composition of committee as now functioning and whether any changes are contemplated.