868.00/1323: Telegram
The Ambassador to the Greek Government in Exile (MacVeagh) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 28—8:34 a.m.]
Greek [Series] 148. I have delivered to the Greek Prime Minister the Secretary’s message as instructed in Department’s No. 66, Greek Series of December 23, 9 p.m., and its immediately following telegram, and in reply Mr. Tsouderos has asked me to convey his warmest thanks to the Secretary for the help given to him and also, as he feels, to the entire Greek people.
I understand from the British Ambassador that an encouraging message has been received from London and that the receipt of a text similar to the Secretary’s for use as the Prime Minister desires is shortly expected.
Regarding Russian participation I am informed that Mr. Molotov has refused on the grounds that he knows little about internal Greek affairs, while both the Russian Foreign Office and the Ambassador here have made inquiries of the Greek representatives in Moscow and the Greek Government, which betray same anxiety as to whether there may not be a “Mihailovitch”73 somewhere in the Greek situation. Mr. Tsouderos tells me that he has explained to the Russian Ambassador that this last is not the case and that Mr. Movikof “seemed satisfied”. In addition, Mr. Eden has telegraphed the British Ambassador here that they are “having another go” at Molotov. He is communicating to the latter the message he is sending for the Greek [Page 166] Prime Minister’s use and the British Ambassador here is doing the same thing with the Secretary’s message, the hope being that the Russian Foreign Minister will perceive the high grounds of mutual United Nations interest on which this effort towards securing internal Greek unity is being made and accordingly lend his support in the spirit of the recent joint conferences.
- Gen. Dragoljub Mihailovitch, Minister of War in Yugoslavia in the Royal Yugoslav Cabinet and leader of the Chetnik Partisans.↩