363. Editorial Note
In mid-August 1957, a crisis in United States-Syrian relations erupted when, in response to Syria’s expulsion of two U.S. diplomats and the Military Attaché for plotting against the Syrian Government, the United States declared the Ambassador and Second Secretary of the Syrian Embassy persona non grata and dispatched Loy Henderson to the Middle East to discuss the Syrian situation with Turkish, Iraqi, Jordanian, and Lebanese officials. For documentation on the Syrian crisis, including discussions with British, Egyptian, and Israeli officials on the subject, see volume XIII, pages 632 ff.