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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Records of the Naval Aide to the President (Truman Administration)
State Department Briefs Files
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Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, 1919-1980
Wilson, Edwin Carleton, 1893-1972
Wiley, John C. (John Cooper), 1893-1967
Bevin, Ernest, 1881-1951
Douglas, Lewis W. (Lewis Williams), 1894-1974
Hazhir, Abd al Husayn, 1902-1949
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON
August 6, 1948
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
TURKEY
The Turkish Foreign Office has informed our Ambassador
that the Greek Government has requested the loan of
30 Turkish planes for use in the present campaign against the guer-
rillas. The Turkish Government feels that it cannot accede to this
request, which would involve it in the present difficulties between
Greece and the Soviet Balkan satellites, but would be willing for us
to divert to Greece planes intended for shipment to Turkey.
IRAN
Ambassador Wiley has received confirmation from the Prime
Minister that the Soviet Ambassador recently called to
present at some length the charge that Iran was displaying hostility
to its good neighbor the USSR while at the same time cooperating with
the US. Mentioning that Soviet-US relations were "bad" and that there
was the "possibility of war", he urged Iran to free itself from all
US influences.
British Foreign Minister Bevin has mentioned to Ambassa-
dor Douglas his fear that the USSR, in finding western Europe diffi-
cult to break, will soon turn to a softer spot. Bevin considers that
this shift in the Soviet attack might come rapidly, and he considers
it most likely the USSR will turn toward the Middle East with Iran as
the focal point.
While he was in London the Shah of Iran raised the ques-
tion of a possible UK-Iranian alliance, which the British carefully
avoided for fear it would cause trouble with the USSR and would be to
the advantage of neither Iran nor the UK.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
By NLT- He
NARS, Date 11-13-to