711.672/465a
The Under Secretary of State (Grew) to Senator Charles Curtis
Washington, May 20,
1926.
Dear Senator Curtis: In accordance with your request, I am sending you enclosed a statement of the outstanding reasons why we believe the Treaty with Turkey should be ratified. I have endeavored to make it as brief as possible without sacrificing a clear presentation of the situation.
If you desire to have this statement mimeographed and will send me a telephone message as to how many copies you wish, I can have them struck off and sent to you immediately.
Sincerely yours,
Joseph C. Grew
- See letter of May 5, 1924, from the Secretary of State to Senator Lodge, Foreign Relations, 1924, vol. ii, p. 715.↩
- For text of treaty signed Aug. 10, 1920, see British and Foreign State Papers, vol. cxiii, p. 652.↩
- For full text of the letter referred to, see letter of Nov. 10, 1922, from President Harding’s secretary to the chairman of the American Committee for Independence of Armenia, post, p. 991. The extract from the letter which the American Committee Opposed to the Lausanne Treaty printed in its publication entitled The Lausanne Treaty: Turkey and Armenia (n. p., 1926), p. 118, reads, in full: “… Everything which may be done will be done in seeking to protect the Armenian people and preserve to them the rights which the Sevres Treaty undertook (Wilson award) to bestow.” For the Wilson award, see Foreign Relations, 1920, vol. iii, p. 790.↩
- Henry Morgenthau, retired as Ambassador to Turkey in July 1916; see telegram No. 3495, Apr. 6, 1917, to the Ambassador in Turkey, Foreign Relations, 1917, supp. 2, vol. i, p. 11.↩