867.24/622a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Winant )
1550. Ankara reports that according to the British Ambassador there, the Turks were promised at the Adana Conference78 four or five cargo vessels, 10 locomotives and 250 13-ton freight cars. A press report, giving the numbers as six 10,000-ton ships, 15 locomotives and 490 railway cars was declared by the British Ambassador as “entirely unauthorized.”
Please investigate and report. Since the Turks have been pressing this Government for cargo vessels, which we have found impossible [Page 1098] to supply to date due in part at least to assistance being given Great Britain, the Department is naturally much interested in the report, as the Maritime Commission will doubtless be.