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HECLASSIFICATION AUTHORIT oe SVE = Al AUTOMATIC DECLASS ou oe DATE o7-os-2016 af b6 JANCOMI (amar Ok Action: Infos SS c G P EUR OcD CTA FC RPS DCR BEA geceived fo from tho ot Btste | NETE-EGRAM: F STATE—DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS TELEGRAPH BRANCH CON L ehven Control 5132 Rec'd May 15, 1948 2:36 p.m. rs a ; i } See ON PROM: TO: Secretary of State NO: 533, May 15, 2 p.m. ‘ On May 13 Foreign Minister told me he was having a hot time in Majlis over Henrys*Wallace, Foreign Minister seemed to suffer from misapprehension that Wallace is eonnected with American Government, I assured him he was not. Foreign Minister then described Wallace as American Sanator. I told him Wallace was not a Senator. Finally Foreign Minister insisted Wallace was a “Deputy. QQ I protested that Wallace was not member of Congress anc had no connection whatever with American Government. Foreign Minister persisted; Wallace had made his of fén- give remarks before Congress, iI replied that Wallace had spoken if at all as a private individual before the Foreign Affairs Coommittee of Congress which was quite aifferent matter. The Foreign Minister replied that this information would be most helpful to him in handling the Majlis on the subject... He said however that he had addressed a note te me and that he hopca very much I would telegraph it to my Government together with my “comments on the situation Wallace had created here. Later in the day the Shah expressed to me considerable 2oncern over the effect of Wailace'’s remarks. Indeed Wallace has provoked a storm of} Le _) nh eA The text of the note which was received this morning is as follows in translations "The Imperial Minister of Foreign Affairs presents its compliments to the Embassy of the U of America and has honor to state that as the Embassy is aware Mr. Henry Wallace's statements © that 'to remove differences between America and the soviet Union in the Middle East an arrangement to the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1907 prong "Be Geet! Ls has had extremely. unfavourable effect on { Inpatany 22 i94g\\N RECORDED - 116 public opinion fe INFORMATION COPY FY. 39 4 Me]