Office of the Historian

782.5 MSP/12–1151: Telegram

The Ambassador in Turkey (Wadsworth) to the Department of State

confidential
Ankara, December 11, 1951—3 p. m.

521. ReDeptel 494, December 10,1 I had suitable opportunity to discuss MSA agreement with FonMin December 10 at which time it was arranged that Ustun, Acting Secy Gen FonOff, shld receive Keith today.

Draft text was given to Ustun and Asst Secy Gen Fatin Zorlu this morning. Ustun made open, quick, off-hand comment to effect that they cld not agree to second sentence para 52 which referred to expenditures for encouragement of immigration. Zorlu added that immigration problem for Turkey was very special one because of numbers of Turks coming out of Bulgaria. He thought wording of note was elaboration of wording given to Section 523 of Act.

Ustun said they wld wish to study text carefully and wld communicate with Emb. Zorlu remarked that there wld be ample time before January 8 to deal with problem.

Wadsworth

  1. In telegram 494 to Ankara, December 10, not printed, Ambassador Wadsworth was instructed to report on the progress of the negotiations concerning the proposed exchange of notes between the United States and Turkey to amend the existing ECA and Mutual Security Defense Assistance Program agreements. (780.5 MSP/12–1051)

    To enable Turkey to continue to receive aid from these programs, the existing accords had to be amended to bring them into line with the new requirements for aid eligibility drawn up by Congress and approved by the President on October 10, 1951, in the Mutual Security Act; 65 Stat. 373.

    In an airgram of November 21, not printed, the Department had informed Wadsworth of these facts and had included a draft agreement for his use as the basis for an exchange of notes with the Turkish Government to obtain Turkey’s compliance with the provisions of the Mutual Security Act (781.5 MSP/11–2151).

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  2. Paragraph 5 of the draft text in the airgram of November 21 is as follows:

    “5. Paragraph 6 of Article IV of the Economic Cooperation Agreement shall include expenditures for military production, construction, equipment and material. It shall also include expenditures for the encouragement of emigration from participating countries having permanent surplus manpower to areas, particularly the undeveloped and dependent areas, where such manpower can be effectively utilized.” (781.5 MSP/11–2151)

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