Office of the Historian

868.24/132a: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Greece (MacVeagh)

Washington, March 22, 1941—8 p.m.

108. On March 17 the Department issued licenses for the export to Greece of the following arms and ammunition released under the provisions of the Act of March 11, 1941:93 Fifty 75-millimeter guns, 150,000 [Page 703] shells for these guns, and 30,000 shells for 155-millimeter howitzers.94 The appropriate authorities of this Government are now considering carefully what further arms and other materials can be released for export to Greece under the authority of this law. You may so inform the Greek Government.

Welles
  1. Lend-Lease Act; 55 Stat. 31.↩
  2. The foregoing material was from ordnance stock transferred by the War Department to the Greek Government by direction of the President.↩