891.51A/883: Telegram
The Minister in Iran (Dreyfus) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2:20 p.m.]
1037. The Financial Laws Commission of the Majlis met with Millspaugh on Saturday and after a long session approved an agreed draft of the income tax bill. Since the Majlis continues unnecessarily to delay passage of this essential bill Millspaugh and his staff of Americans will cease work on November 3. There is every indication that this action will insure and hasten the passage of the tax bill after which Millspaugh and his staff are prepared to withdraw their resignations and return to work. It is necessary to proceed in this manner since the Majlis has little desire to pass an income tax bill and because the session ends on November 22.
While I have every hope that the bill will pass and Millspaugh will remain I have decided to postpone my departure for the United States until the question is finally settled. I will not therefore proceed with the Secretary’s party.63
- The Secretary of State was at this time returning to the United States from the Tripartite Foreign Ministers’ Conference at Moscow.↩