767.68119 T&M 2/11: Telegram
The Special Mission at Lausanne to the Secretary of State
[Received December 16—8:25 p.m.]
118. Statement by American representative at the subcommission on the exchange of populations December 16th.
[“]The American delegation desires to inform the subcommission that the proposal to abolish or remove the institution of the Patriarchate of Constantinople has been met by vigorous disapproval and protest among large bodies of American citizens. The American delegation wishes to emphasize the view of those whose protests we have received that the Patriarchate was confirmed by the wisdom not of foreigners in Turkey but by Turkey herself and intolerable injustice will be done if there is insistence upon the abolition of the institution. We have adequate evidence of this view in telegram from signatories representing large bodies of our population. [”]
Report of meeting will follow.43
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