Office of the Historian

File No. 367.116/248

The Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State

American Embassy,
Constantinople, December 5, 1914, 8 p.m.
[Received December 11, 430 p. m]

[Telegram]

123. Had a long interview with Minister of the Interior and Minister of Public Instruction. They offered to treat American institutions the same as foreign institutions are treated in the United States and to delay enforcement of most of the objectionable instructions sixty days.1 They state that they principally desire to obtain supervisory control of and direct relations with foreign institutions without the guardianship of the Embassy.

American Ambassador
  1. The instructions to provincial officials concerning private religious, educational and benevolent institutions, schools and medical institutions, transmitted by the Ambassador with his despatch No 142, December 5, 1914 (File No. 367.116/273), are printed in Foreign Relations, 1916, pp. 972–4.↩