867.24/2–2045: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Turkey (Steinhardt)
Washington, February
21, 1945—4 p.m.
225. ReEmbs 240, February 20. Please inform the Prime Minister personally of the Secretary General’s somewhat casual indication of [Page 1303] further delay. Department suggests that the Prime Minister should, in Turkey’s best interest, see to it that Turkey’s signature of the Mutual Aid Agreement is not delayed by the absence from Ankara of one or two officials. The matter is too important to be left dangling, particularly at this time.
Grew