891.00/12–145: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Iran (Murray)
693. Please deliver following personal message from Byrnes to Nadjm:
“I acknowledge with pleasure your telegram of December 1,1 occasioned by the second anniversary of the historic Conference of Tehran. I note particularly your expression of the Iranian people’s confidence in the continued fulfillment by the signatory nations of the pledges embodied in the Declaration Regarding Iran. I welcome this opportunity of expressing again the recognition by the Govt of the US of the assistance rendered by Iran in the recent victory over our common enemy and of assuring you that the interest of the Govt of the US in the maintenance of the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Iran, as set forth in that Declaration, has not changed in any respect.”
Nadjm message and Byrnes reply are being released to press today.
- For text, see Department of State Bulletin, December 9, 1945, p. 941.↩