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Telegram of Dec 23-94
Gresham - Secretary - Washington
I had three hours audience with
the Sultan on Saturday night. I presented
your instructions in telegram of fifteenth
expressed my opinion on great popular
excitement in America. He evaded
direct answer -- he said that he had appealed
to America as a friendly nation and was refused,
; then after he had yielded to European
Powers President made new propositions
which he had refused to the other Great Powers
[". President" appears smeared] expressed embarassment {sic} and desired appeal
to Presidents sense of justice and friendship.
The Sultan asked that the Chief of the Commercial
College, he who will be sent by the President
serve as one of Turkish Commissioners, I have
decided to entertain the proposition, and
terminated in Sultans request for me to
await his conference with Council of Ministers
and promised an early answer. Grand