Office of the Historian

800.24/1160: Telegram

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

Washington, November 8, 1943—7 p.m.

97. With reference to the British plan to supply Saudi Arabia with the military equipment described in Department’s 92, October 23,4 please inform us whether Ibn Saud or other Saudi Arabian officials approached the British in regard to such supplies and, if so, the circumstances under which the approach was made. Please state also whether any of this equipment has been delivered by the British.4a

Stettinius
  1. See footnote 99, p. 908.↩
  2. For a British report regarding the approach by Mr. Moose to the Saudi Arabian Government pursuant to this instruction, and comment by Mr. Moose thereon, see Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943, pp. 378 and 447; for the Minister Resident’s reply to the Department on November 19, see telegram No. 189, p. 912.↩