890E.01/123: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Beirut (Engert)
Washington, February
20, 1942—11 p.m.
25. Your no. 11, January 16, and no. 35, February 6, 9 p.m. The question of the recognition of Syrian and Lebanese independence continues to receive the Department’s very active consideration, and although there are certain inter-related problems which complicate the question, a further instruction to you should be possible in the near future.
Welles