Editorial Note
An agreement extending a $25,000,000 credit to the Iranian Government for the purchase of United States surplus military equipment was entered into on June 20. The agreement was in the form of a letter of June 19 from the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner to the Iranian Ambassador, winch was accepted by the latter the following day (891.51/1–347, 891.24 FLC/8–2847). The Secretary of State sent a copy of the agreement to Secretary of War Patterson on July 15. The concluding paragraph of the transmitting letter stated in part: “The Department wishes to stress that the furnishing of military supplies to Iran is in keeping with our general policy toward that country and is in the national interest.” (891.51/1–347)
For the text of the Department’s statement of June 20 on the agreement, see Department of State Bulletin, July 6, 1947, page 47.