Office of the Historian

890D.01/12–2145: Telegram

The Chargé in Lebanon (Mattison) to the Secretary of State

Beirut, December 21, 1945—4 p.m.
[Received December 228:25 a.m.]

427. British Legation informs me that full text of Anglo-French agreement will be released in London and Paris at 3 p.m. GMT and that they are now issuing a local communiqué announcing that talks between British and French military experts began today.

Repeated to Paris as 108, to London as 15. Sent to Department as 427.

Mattison