868.248/128: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Greece (MacVeagh)
120. Your 163, March 24, 6 p.m. and Department’s 112, March 26, 9 p.m. I am happy to inform you that the President has now released to Greece 30 new Grumman fighter planes under the provisions of the Lend-Lease Act. Some of the planes have already been crated for shipping and the crating of the remainder is proceeding rapidly. Shipping tonnage is understood to have been made available by the British authorities for the immediate transportation of approximately half of these planes to Suez, and arrangements for shipping the remainder have been promised for the relatively near future.