Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1940, The British Commonwealth, The Soviet Union, The Near East and Africa, Volume III

740.0011 European War 1939/6326: Telegram

The Minister in Rumania ( Gunther ) to the Secretary of State

Bucharest , October 29, 1940—9 p.m.
[Received October 30—8:30 a.m.]

682. A high official of the Greek Embassy told Huston³⁸ this afternoon that it was the Embassy’s definite conviction that Berlin was taken by surprise by the Italian attack on Greece, that the attack was certainly not sponsored by Germany and even did not fit in with German plans.

The Military Attaché of this Legation gained a similar impression from his conversations today with service attaches of the German Legation.

Repeated to Athens.

Gunther

38. Cloyce K. Huston, Second Secretary of Legation in Rumania.