891.6363 Standard Oil/384a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Persia (Murray)
99. According to reports from Persia appearing in press, the Persian Government has received a telegram from an official of the Sinclair Company accepting North Persian oil concession. It is stated also that the stipulation for a loan is omitted from the contract. Information has not reached the Department that concession in complete form has been confirmed by the Mejliss (Legation’s 123, September 18). Department awaits your report on the actual status of the oil concession and on the correctness of the above press reports. Soper and others of Sinclair Company when calling recently at Department did not express any expectation that an agreement would be reached so soon.