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782.5 MSA/12–2151: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Embassy in Turkey 1

confidential
priority
Washington, December 26, 1951—6:51 p. m.

552. Re Embtel 560 Dec 21. Paras four2 and five MSA3 notes not absolutely required by Act of Cong but as they are being incorporated in agreements with other countries appears necessary for sake of uniformity of treatment to include in agreement with Turk. Failure to include wld greatly increase difficulties in negots in future years.

Re Para five concerning emigration wld Turk objection be met by inserting phrase in second sentence “for the resettlement of refugees [Page 1190] within Turk and for” after “include expenditures”. No objection giving Turks formal statement in supplementary aide-mémoire along lines Para 2 Deptel 527 Dec 17.4

Re Para 4 MSA note, exchange of notes can be accomplished by aide-mémoire in which US states:

(a)
Turk lira will not be converted into dollars
(b)
No conversion without prior consultation Turk Govt and Turk fon exchange position will be taken into account
(c)
Use of counterpart for conversions into other currencies will be carried out in Turk and will be limited in magnitude.

Acheson
  1. Drafted by Lincoln, GTI; approved by Dorsz, GTI; and cleared with Dorothy Imlay, L/E, Raphael Dondero, MSA, and Morse, ECA.↩
  2. See footnote 3, supra.↩
  3. See footnote 2, p. 1188, and footnote 2, supra.↩
  4. See footnoted, supra.↩