Office of the Historian

867.24/667: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)85

Washington, May 15, 1943—11 p.m.

3127. Your 3103, May 4, midnight.86 Section 2, paragraph 2. Ambassador Steinhardt informed the Department on May 687 that the British Minister in Ankara expected to submit to the Turkish authorities within a few days a draft of a lend-lease agreement which would substantially follow the lines of the proposed American-Turkish lend-lease agreement.

Please inform the appropriate British authorities that the Department would be interested in learning the terms of the proposed [Page 1103] British-Turkish agreement. You may point out that the American Government obtained the views of the British authorities regarding the proposed American-Turkish lend-lease agreement prior to its submission to Turkey. Our interest in the proposed British-Turkish lend-lease agreement will of course be especially important if any lend-lease supplies of American origin are concerned.

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  1. Repeated to the Ambassador in Turkey as telegram No. 441.↩
  2. Not printed.↩
  3. By telegram No. 824, May 6, 9 p.m., not printed.↩