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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State (Long)
The Minister26 came in this afternoon at my request. I told him that we had no specific information to convey to him but we wanted him to feel that we were deeply interested in the situation his Government found itself, and that we were entirely sympathetic and wanted to keep in communication with him. I further told him that the military authorities were considering what might be done under the circumstances. There was no definite information I could give him. If anything should develop, the Department would be glad to let him know, and we hoped that he would communicate with us and would feel that he could approach us at any time.
I particularly desired that he should not communicate to his Government any inferences from anything I may have said because we did not want to give the basis for the thought that any decision had been made, but only that they found a sympathetic understanding here and a disposition to do whatever we found to be practical to alleviate the situation.
- The Egyptian Minister.↩