890E.00/184: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Iraq (Gaudin)
230. Please inform Acting Regent and Prime Minister that this Government has welcomed the expression of their views on the Lebanese crisis reported in your 441, November 13, noon and 442, November 13, 6 p.m. You may assure them that this Government promptly and firmly expressed to the French Committee of National Liberation at Algiers its complete disapproval of the repressive acts of the French authorities at Beirut and its expectation that the Committee would take prompt steps to restore the duly elected Government of the Lebanese Republic and to implement the solemn promises of independence given to the Lebanese people in the name of the French National Committee in 1941.
Sent to Baghdad. Repeated to Cairo and Beirut.