Office of the Historian

867.24/3–945: Telegram

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

Washington, March 20, 1945—1 p.m.

2141. ReEmbs 2454, March 9. The Department requests the Embassy to inform the Foreign Office that the United States Government would appreciate the action of the British Government in giving an assurance to the Turkish Government to the effect that lend-lease items retransferred to the Turkish Government by the British are excluded from the Anglo-Turkish armaments credit, and that whatever obligation arises from such deliveries represents a direct obligation by the Turks to the United States Government.35

Grew
  1. Telegram 3507, April 6, 1945, 5 p.m., from London, reported information from the Foreign Office that the British Ambassador at Ankara had been instructed to give this assurance to the Turkish Government (867.24/4–645).↩