867.602/99: Telegram
The Special Mission at Lausanne to the Secretary of State
[Received 7:01 p.m.]
510. Your telegram 218 of July 5.33 Last night and today I have had two long interviews with Ismet Pasha during which I repeated the various observations as to the objectionable nature of the second article of the draft protocol on concessions which I had already advanced again and again. Today I also told him that if the objectionable provision is adopted the Department would consider it necessary frankly to tell American business men inquiring as to the prospect of engaging in business in Turkey that the peace settlement contained a provision which the Department believed might lead to a great confusion of claims and that the Department found it difficult to determine the extent to which Turkey had thereby limited her freedom of action. I also indicated to Ismet that if Turkey’s economic policy is to be controlled by the principle contained in the second article of the protocol it would be useless for the Turks to expect the same interest on the part of American citizens in economic ventures in Turkey.
Ismet noted these representations fully.
- Not printed; the representations here reported contain the substance of the Department’s instructions in the telegram under reference.↩