867.00/7–1547: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Embassy in Turkey
437. Dept has received Embassy’s despatch 17501 transmitting your report on aid to Turkey. In consultation with General Oliver, Admiral Herrmann and other War and Navy officials careful consideration is being given recommendations set forth therein. Two aspects of report which particularly concern us are sections on (1) continuing aid and (2) technical personnel.
Dept wishes to disassociate continuing aid recommendation from body of report. Oliver assures us the one-year $100,000,000 program stands alone and would not be affected thereby. With his and Herrmann’s concurrence we therefore propose to delete paragraph 15 on continuing aid and all subsequent references thereto. If you perceive no objection you are requested to advise the Department and to embody in a supplementary report your recommendations regarding a five-year plan. Such change of form it is felt will enhance usefulness of report without affecting in any way its substance.2
[Page 259]Regarding training aspect, Dept feels bound by oral commitment made to Congress as to limitation of military personnel connected with program and is requesting study by War and Navy Departments of effect on recommended training program.
- Dated July 15; see footnote 1, p. 233.↩
- In telegram 608, July 25, 6 p. m., from Ankara, Ambassador Wilson reported that lie had no objection to deletion from his report of July 15 of paragraph 15 and of subsequent references to continuing aid (867.00/7–2547). He thereupon forwarded a supplementary report, infra, containing his views on this subject.↩