740.0011 European War 1939/12279: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Leahy)13

507. Following telegram dated June 21 has been received from Beirut:

[Here follows text of telegram No. 233, June 21, 8 a.m., printed on page 746.]

You are requested, unless you perceive objection, to bring this suggestion to the attention of the French Government, stating that the [Page 750] American Government would of course be pleased to lend its facilities for effecting any arrangement which might serve to prevent the destruction of lives and property in Beirut, a city with which the United States has many connections of a cultural and intellectual nature.

The Embassy in London has been authorized, in its discretion, to bring the above suggestion to the attention of the British Government in a similar manner.

Welles
  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, was sent on the same date to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom as telegram No. 2276.