467.11 W 89/32: Telegram
The High Commissioner at Constantinople (Bristol) to the Secretary of State
[Received 4:15 p.m.]
271. Your telegram 181 of September 29. I am informed by Adnan Bey that he has been given full powers to negotiate with respect to American claims. He accepts my suggestion to him of September 3 that the experts engage in informal exploratory conversations before the formal negotiations begin. The Turks have named as their experts Munir Bey who was at the Lausanne Conference and Ibrahim Bey, financial inspector of the vilayet of Constantinople and former director general of customs. Our experts will be Shaw and Turlington. The experts will hold their first meeting on October 22 at the Sublime Porte. The Department may wish to give me full powers to negotiate with respect to claims and also to send me separate full powers to use in negotiations regarding naturalization if occasion arises.