891.51A/9–1445: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Iran (Murray)
553. A summary of the Dept’s telegram No. 522, Sept. 14, to Tehran was included in one of our daily information telegrams to London for the Secretary. I have now received the following message from him:37 “I believe that the American Financial Mission should leave Iran immediately”.
If you have not already done so, please take appropriate steps to expedite the departure of the mission. The Dept. is, of course, aware that the members of the mission are employees of the Iran Govt, under contract, and hopes that means can be found of effecting termination with minimum of friction or unpleasantness.
- Telegram 9825 (Delsec 47), September 22, 1945, 1 p.m., from London, not printed. “Delsec” was the code designation for messages emanating from the Secretary’s delegation at the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers at London from September 11 to October 2, 1945.↩