Office of the Historian

800.24591/5–1245

Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Chief of the Division of Middle Eastern Affairs (Minor)

[Washington,] May 21, 1945.
Participants: Mr. Davallou, First Secretary of Iranian Legation
Mr. George V. Allen, NEA33
Mr. Harold B. Minor, ME

Mr. Davallou called to say that the Iranian Government delivered identical notes on May 19, 1945, to the Russian, British, and American [Page 372] Embassies in Tehran requesting that, in view of the end of the war in Europe, Allied forces be withdrawn from Iran. He stated further that he was directed by his Government to ask for American support of this proposal, not only in approving withdrawal of the American forces in Iran, but also in informing the British and Russian Governments of the action we have taken.

Mr. Allen assured Mr. Davallou that the Department would give the proposal its sympathetic consideration. He suggested that Mr. Davallou follow up this conversation with an aide-mémoire, to which Mr. Davallou agreed.34

  1. Deputy Director of the Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs (NEA) since April 19, 1945.↩
  2. In a telephone conversation on May 22, 1945, Mr. Davallou informed Mr. Minor that an aide-mémoire would not be furnished since the Iranian Government had made a direct approach to the American Embassy at Tehran (800.24591/5–2245).↩