550.AD1/64a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Asmara ( Smith )13

45. By direction of the President, you are requested to transmit the following invitation to the Ethiopian Government:

[Here follows invitation which is a paraphrase of that sent to the United Kingdom, text of which is printed in telegram No. 1465, March 8, page 820, except that problem 4 mentioned in that telegram is omitted.]

Hull
  1. Similar invitations were sent on March 24, March 26, and April 1 to the Governments of the United Nations, those American Republics which had broken off diplomatic relations with the Axis Powers, and Iceland, Iran, Liberia, and Egypt. For list of the nations receiving invitations, see Department of State Bulletin, April 10, 1943, p. 298.