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The two attached letters
both emphasise how important it is
from our point of view to keep the
Turks sweet and how much the Americans
can help in this respect by continuing
to supply them with war material.
The Foreign Office obviously attach a
great deal of importance to the matter
and perhaps, therefore, when you see
Mr- Hull on Saturday morning you could
speak to him at some length on the
subject.
One of our difficulties is
that Mr. Wallace Murray, the head of
the Near Eastern Division, is anti-Turk
The more pressure,
be put on him from
people the better,
an opportunity not
Mr. Hull, but also
the Administration
therefore, that can
above by his own
You may too have
only of speaking to
to other members of
on the same lines.
I think the heads of the Joint
Staff Mission might like to see these
two letters and if you agree I will send
the papers over to Mr. Gorell Barnes to
see.
7th 1941.
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