Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, The Near and Middle East, Volume IX, Part 2

774.5 MSP/11–2152: Telegram

No. 1041
The Secretary of State to the Embassy in Egypt¹

secret

Washington, December 4, 1952—5:14 p.m.

1160. Re Emb desp 982 Nov 21² Dept hopes you will point out to Egypt Govt that until such time as notes exchanged in accordance Dept A139 Oct 15 we cannot complete formalities re equipment listed Deptel 1070³ Nov 21. Since development overall program and therefore our reply to Naguib’s memo of Nov 10 may take some time we wld hope that during interim at least police equipment wld move. We wld therefore urge that Egypt Govt sign short form agreement now. It shld be pointed out that our reply to Naguib Nov 10 memo will also depend to some extent upon receipt Annex II.

Acheson

1. Repeated to London as telegram 3755.
2. Not printed.
3. See footnote 3, Document 1033.