Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1943, The Near East and Africa, Volume IV

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Memorandum of Conversation, by Mr. Harold Shantz of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs

[Washington,] December 21, 1943.

I told Colonel Harry McBride⁷⁰ about the desire of the Iranian Government to have us support them in getting the British and Russian troops out of Iran, and I asked him to sound out the War Department.

He telephoned later and said that the War Department has no interest in having the British and Russians get out. They therefore would like us take no steps in that direction. He said it was mainly a question of manpower.

H[arold] S[hantz]

70. Of the War Department.