891.51A/398: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Persia (Philip)
[Paraphrase]
Washington, August 29,
1927—6 p.m.
44. Referring Legation’s 56, August 29, 2 p.m.
- 1.
- In judgment of Department there exist no adequate grounds for recalling communication of August 11 to Persian Government.
- 2.
- Department instructs you to state to Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, either by letter or in conversation as may seem most suitable, that the communication which you addressed to him is in no way to be regarded as an attempt to interfere with or call in question the acts of the Persian Government in its disputes with foreign officers in its service. You may offer as evidence of sincerity of this declaration that your communication explicitly and repeatedly referred only to future contingencies, and that it was addressed to the Persian Government when the subject of the renewal of contract with the Administrator General had already been brought to a conclusion and his departure was already an accomplished fact. The Acting Foreign Minister should be informed that your note of August 11 was intended only to preclude chance of later difficulties by a timely notice that the informal assistance of the United States Government in 1922 toward securing for Persia a staff of American advisers could not in the future be counted upon unconditionally.
- 3.
- If the Persian Government finds some obscurity in the initial statement of your communication as you quote it in your telegram 56, you should make it quite clear to the Persian Government that the words have no special significance except as an opening formula.
- 4.
- It is taken for granted by the Department that your communication of the 11th instant contained the substance of the Department’s 37 of August 2, 5 p.m. Telegram 39 [bis], August 9, 5 p.m. from Department was intended solely for your private knowledge and direction and not for transmission.
Castle