Office of the Historian

868.151/144: Telegram

The Chargé in Greece (Aldridge) to the Secretary of State

Athens, July 27, 1935—noon.
[Received July 27—8:40 a.m.]

105. My July 12 [11] 2 p.m. At the request of Mr. Maximos, to whom I had fully explained the Ulen difficulties as soon as he became Foreign Minister, I took Mr. Shepperd35 personally to the Foreign Office yesterday and the two men worked out a compromise agreement. The agreement was a verbal one and was not worked out in complete detail, as it was reached an hour before Mr. Shepperd left for the United States. For the time being, however, it apparently settles the company’s difficulties and Mr. Shepperd has expressed his satisfaction.36

Aldridge
  1. Thomas S. Shepperd, of Ulen & Co.↩
  2. In despatch No. 797, August 28, 1935, the Chargé in Greece reported that written agreements dated August 16, 1935, were concluded in accordance with the previous verbal arrangement with Mr. Shepperd (868.151/150).↩