Interest of the United States regarding the impact of the European War upon Syria and Lebanon:16
16. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1940, vol. iii, pp. 890–926.
Contents
- I. Representations by the United States regarding British economic
blockade of Syria and Lebanon (Documents 691–719)
- II. Efforts by the United States to prevent French authorities
from succumbing to German pressures in Syria and Lebanon; use of
Syrian airfields by German planes (Documents 720–767)
- III. British and Free French invasion and occupation of Syria and
Lebanon; good offices of the United States in arranging
armistice (Documents 768–846)
- IV. Refusal of the United States to recognize new regimes
established by the Free French in Syria and Lebanon; reservation of
American treaty rights (Documents 847–878)