767.68119 P/64: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Special Mission at Lausanne
201. Your telegram 451 of June 23. If you do not think it will serve any useful purpose to hold out for a separate declaration, the suggestion in the final paragraph of your telegram for an exchange [Page 1098] of notes would meet the approval of the Department. As indicated in our 180 of June 11, however, such a note should be formally addressed to you. We invite your attention to the phrase “and that he does not therefore deem it necessary to address to us separate assurances in the sense of the declaration”. This the Department suggests should be omitted.
It is the understanding of the Department in sending this instruction that the declaration is to have general applicability and that it is not intended to address a separate declaration to any one or more powers. Naturally the Department would expect in the latter case that the Turks would observe the same formalities in communicating to you as they do in making the statement to the representatives of any other one or more powers.