761.91/102
The Secretary of State to the British Ambassador (Howard)
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency’s communication of March 15, 1924 in which, with reference to previous correspondence which dealt in some detail with the question of extraterritorial rights in Persia, you have outlined the attitude to be taken by the representative of His Majesty’s Government in Persia in the event that the question should be raised by the Persian Government. In the concluding paragraph of your communication you express the hope that this Government concurs in the views outlined in your communication as to the basis on which extraterritorial rights in Persia rest and that the United States representative in Persia will be instructed to adopt an attitude similar to that of his British colleague in case the Persian authorities should endeavor to raise the question of extraterritoriality.
In reply I may state that a copy of Your Excellency’s communication is being forwarded to the American Minister at Teheran for his confidential information. The Minister has been instructed to advise the Department of any effort on the part of the Persian Government to take up with him the question of extraterritoriality in order that appropriate instructions to meet the point at issue might in that event be sent him. In this connection I would particularly direct your [Page 581] attention to the concluding paragraphs of my communication of January 21, 1924.
Accept [etc.]