Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1944, The Near East, South Asia, and Africa, The Far East, Volume V

867N.01/2299: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Egypt (Kirk)⁹⁴

Washington, April 5, 1944—1 p.m.

737. Your 750, March 29, 4 p.m. You may inform the Egyptian Prime Minister that his message has been communicated to the President. You may wish to refer in your reply to the assurances and observations contained in the Department’s 657 and 692⁹⁵ as well as other recent communications on the subject.

Repeat to Jidda, Baghdad, Jerusalem, Beirut and Damascus.

Hull

94. The substance of this telegram was approved by President Roosevelt.
95. See footnotes 85 and 93, pp. 597 and 598, respectively.