Office of the Historian

891.51A/1–845: Telegram

The Ambassador in Iran (Morris) to the Secretary of State

Tehran, January 8, 1945—5 p.m.
[Received January 9—5:30 p.m.]

18. Medjliss98 today passed bill99 canceling as of this date the special economic powers granted Millspaugh1 by the law of 13 Ordibehesht.2 [Page 539] Council of Ministers is authorized to dissolve or reallocate the economic organizations which were under Millspaugh administration by virtue of that law and to annul change or retain all regulations issued thereunder.

Cabinet is directed to create high consultative committee for economic affairs to prepare within 3 months an economic plan in conformity with the needs of the country.

Vote on bill was 69 to 6.

Repeated to Cairo for AEMME3 and Hoskins.4

Morris
  1. The Iranian Parliament.↩
  2. Text transmitted to the Department in despatch 177, January 12, 1945, from Tehran, not printed.↩
  3. Dr. Arthur O. Millspaugh, American Administrator General of the Finances in the Iranian Government.↩
  4. For substance of the law of 13 Ordibehesht, 1322 (May 4, 1943), see telegram 386, April 14, 1943, 5 p.m., from Tehran, Foreign Relations, 1943, vol. iv, p. 522. The text was transmitted to the Department in despatch 556, May 20, 1943, from Tehran (not printed), and has been published by Dr. Millspaugh in his Americans in Persia (Brookings Institution, 1946), p. 273.↩
  5. American Economic Mission in the Middle East.↩
  6. Lt. Col. Harold B. Hoskins, Adviser on Economic Affairs, with the rank of Counselor, at Legation in Egypt; assigned concurrently to Missions in Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia.↩