740.0011 EW 1939/32238: Telegram
The Ambassador in Turkey (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
1968. The following telegram has been sent to Cairo1 and is repeated for the Department’s information.
Most immediate December 3, 11 a.m. Most secret for the President.
Hugesson [Hugessen] received authority last night to give Inonu the desired assurance.2 The President contemplates leaving here today Friday at 4:00 p.m. on a special train for Adana. We should arrive there by noon on Saturday and if the planes have arrived from Cairo will depart immediately. The President’s party will consist of the following:3 the President, his personal and confidential secretary (a Columbia graduate who is outstandingly pro-American), his personal physician, two aides de camp, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, his Chef de Cabinet, his personal physician, the Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, his Chef de Cabinet (who is a nephew of the Foreign Minister) and four domestic servants, a total of 14 persons. In addition there will be the British Ambassador, Knox Helm, formerly stationed in Washington now Counselor of the [Page 666] British Embassy here, Air Vice Marshal George, British Air Attaché in Ankara, the Russian Ambassador and myself.