Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1945, The Near East and Africa, Volume VIII

767.68119/11–245: Telegram

The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State

London, November 2, 1945—10 p.m.
[Received 10:24 p.m.]

11524. See Department’s 9545 to Embassy sent Ankara 1049, October 30 and Moscow as 2239 also Ankara’s 1397 November 1 to Department⁹⁰ repeated London as 116 and Moscow as 92. Text of note concerning Straits was handed to FonOff official 3 p.m. today.

Official commented that at first sight the points mentioned in note seemed satisfactory to the British. He added that he did not expect that his Government at present time would communicate with Turks on this subject but he said that if Turks approached them they would say that they would of course be glad to participate in any conference for the revision of the Montreux Convention.

Sent Department as 11524, repeated Ankara as 113 and Moscow as 376.

Winant

90. See last sentence of footnote 83, p. 1265.