Office of the Historian

891.24/284: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)

Washington, November 18, 1942—6 p.m.

5788. Your 6340, November 11 and previous. Tehran telegram 375 November 14 reads, in part, as follows:

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[Here follows text of first two paragraphs of telegram No. 375, printed on page 195.]

Please ask Foreign Office to give urgent consideration to possible immediate shipment of wheat from India or Middle East, rather than North America. Quantity furnished to meet Iranian emergency could, of course, be replaced later by shipments from this loading area.

We are asking New Delhi to make inquiry in this regard of the Government of India.

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