Office of the Historian

890F.7962/29: Telegram

The Chargé in Saudi Arabia (Moose) to the Secretary of State

Jidda, September 1, 1942—6 p.m.
[Received September 3—9:39 a.m.]

56. My 55, August 29, 6 p.m. In further conversation with British Minister Shaikh Yusuf stated that route specified between Birk and Bahrein is merely the northernmost of permissible routes to Bahrein and that planes may choose their own routes south of that alignment so long as they do not pass near Suleil, also written Sulaiyl.

Repeated to Cairo.

Moose