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Press Release Issued by the Department of State, September 25, 1943

His Royal Highness Amir Faisal, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, will visit the United States as a guest of this Government and is [Page 841] expected to arrive in Washington on Thursday, September 30, 1943. The Foreign Minister will spend a few days in Washington and New York, and later during his stay will visit certain irrigation projects in the southwest portion of the United States.

The Foreign Minister will be accompanied by his brother, His Royal Highness Amir Khalid and Shaikh Hafiz Wahba, Saudi Arabian Minister to London.