Charles Evans Hughes: Letter on Oil Negotiations with Turkey

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Charles Evans Hughes: Letter on OilNegotiations with Turkey

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My Dear Mr. Teagle: I have received your letter of October 25th enclosing, for the Department’s information, a copy of the draft concession submitted to you by the Managing Director of the Turkish Petroleum Company, together with a copy of your letter to Mr. Nichols, relating to the negotiations of the American group of oil companies with regard to Mesopotamia. You state that you are submitting this information in order to enable the Department to express its views with relation thereto and that should the Department have any criticism or suggestion for change relative to the Open Door phase of the matter you would appreciate receiving an expression of the Department’s opinion.

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