890G.42/53: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister Resident in Iraq (Knabenshue)
41. Your despatch no. 1601 of July 23. The Department considers that it might be desirable, in view of all the circumstances set forth by you in this and in previous despatches on the subject, to take no further action at this time in respect of the new Public Education Law.
[Page 747]The Department has in mind in this connection that any assurances which the Iraqi Government might give this Government in respect of the administration of the Public Education Law would not differ from the informal assurances already given representatives of American schools in Iraq by the Director General of Public Instruction and Education and would not necessarily offer any greater promise of fulfillment than those informal assurances.