767.68119/11–1645: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 16—6 p.m.]
12034. Deptel 9545, October 30.97 Regarding Straits question Foreign Office official told us today that the Turks had asked the British [Page 1280] for their comments on US note of November 2 to the Turkish Govt. Reply has been drafted (but not yet finally approved in Foreign Office) stating that British would of course be glad to attend a conference for the revision of Montreux Convention and that the British prefer to withhold their comments on US note until conference; official remarked the points in American note seemed satisfactory.
Sent Dept as 12034; repeated Ankara 125 and Moscow 390.