667.003/163: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the High Commissioner at Constantinople (Bristol)

96. Your 272 November 21, 5 PM and your despatch 131 April 8, 1921.32 You may inform your Allied Colleagues that having in view the present conditions at Constantinople, Department, as a temporary measure, without prejudice to our rights and without establishing a precedent for any other taxes, consents to Commissioner’s request that the municipal taxes mentioned in your said despatch and stated to be necessary for the maintenance of sanitary services be applied to American citizens with the understanding that such services shall be under non-Turkish financial and technical supervision, that the taxes shall be equally applied to all foreigners and that collection shall be effected with the help of interallied police.

Keep Department fully informed by mail.

Hughes
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