No. 80
Editorial Note
On August 23 Prime Minister Attlee wrote to President Truman concerning the situation in Iran following the failure of the Stokes Mission. After reviewing the progress of the talks, thanking the President for the assistance rendered by Harriman and Levy, and expressing agreement with the United States that there was danger of Iran falling under Communist domination, Attlee urged the President to state that the United States Government fully supported the British stand, that it regarded the breakdown in the [Page 155] talks as solely the fault of the Iranian Government, and that the disaster which now threatened Iran was due only to the policy of that government. (A copy of this message is in file 888.2553/10–1051.)