867.24/7–545
The Ambassador in Turkey (Wilson) to
the Secretary of State
No. 55
Ankara, July 5,
1945.
[Received July 18.]
Sir: Referring to the Embassy’s telegrams no.
542, April 21, and no. 594, May 2, and to the Department’s telegram no.
562, May 26, 1945, I have the honor to enclose a copy of a note
addressed by Sir Maurice Drummond Peterson, the British Ambassador to
Turkey, to the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs under date of June
30, 1945, regarding American Lend-Lease material delivered to Turkey
through British channels. The British note was sent in accordance with
new instructions received by the British Ambassador from the Foreign
Office in London, after ascertaining from Mr. Milton Winn, Special
Representative in Turkey of the Foreign Economic Administration and
myself that no objection was perceived to the note being sent.
Respectfully yours,
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[Enclosure]
The British Ambassador in Turkey (Peterson) to the Turkish Acting Minister for Foreign
Affairs (Sümer)
No. 279
(194/40/45)
[Ankara,] June 30, 1945.
Your Excellency: In connection with the
delivery to Turkey through British channels of Lend-Lease goods of
American origin, and in view of the arrangements concluded on
February 23rd 1945 between the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs
and the United States Ambassador, I have the honour, by direction of
His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, to inform Your
Excellency that the value of any items which the United Kingdom may
have received on Lend-Lease terms from the United States and which
they have subsequently retransferred to the Turkish Government would
be outside the scope of the Anglo-Turkish Armaments Credit, and that
any obligations in respect of such items are owed direct to the
United States Government by the Turkish Government.
I avail myself [etc.]
