Office of the Historian

867N.01/1915: Telegram

The Minister Resident in Saudi Arabia (Moose) to the Secretary of State

Jidda, August 11, 1943—10 a.m.
[Received 1:10 p.m.]

88. For Murray8 and Alling.9 Referring to verbal message delivered by Hoskins.10 Still adhere to opinion expressed in Department that Dhahran is preferable location.11 While there is no precedent to use for guidance I see no reason to anticipate objection by local authorities.

Moose
  1. Wallace Murray, Adviser an Political Relations.↩
  2. Paul H. Alling, Chief of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs.↩
  3. Lt. Col. Harold B. Hoskins; regarding the visit by Lt. Col. Hoskins to Saudi Arabia, see pp. 790–821, passim.↩
  4. i.e., for a U.S. Consulate in Saudi Arabia.↩