Office of the Historian

711.00 Statement July 16, 1937/140a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Iran (Engert)

Washington, August 5, 1937—6 p.m.

36. Department’s 31, July 22, 6 p.m.89 Please seek an early occasion to call on the Foreign Minister and tell him of the pleasure I have had in observing from the terms of the Middle Eastern Pact signed at Teheran on July 8th,90 a copy of which we have just received, that his Government and the other three Governments involved have clearly [Page 754] put into practice among themselves the good neighbor policy as advocated by the United States and explained in detail in my statement of July 16th. I request the Foreign Minister to accept my sincere congratulations on the part his Government under the guidance of His Majesty Reza Shah has played in this effort to foster and maintain peaceful relations with neighboring countries.

Please ask the Afghan representative to convey a similar message to the Afghan Foreign Minister.

A similar instruction is being sent to Baghdad and Istanbul.91

Hull
  1. Not printed; see footnote 10, p. 703.↩
  2. The Saadabad Pact, signed by Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey; League of Nations Treaty Series, Vol. cxc, p. 21.↩
  3. Department’s telegrams Nos. 18 and 63, respectively, August 5, 6 p.m., not printed.↩