740.00119 EW/8–2644: Telegram
The Chargé to the Greek Government in Exile (Shantz) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 26—2:05 p.m.]
Greek 265. Greece demands from Bulgaria: (a) A strategical guarantee of her northern frontier, so that the keys of her house be not held in foreign hands, and especially Bulgarian hands. (b) The punishment of the Bulgarian rulers and military chiefs, and also of all those who have committed crimes against the populations of Macedonia and Thrace, according to the principles on the punishment of war criminals, proclaimed by the United Nations.32 (c) The payment of indemnities to the families of the victims, who died executed, or from hunger, privations, and hardships; also to the persons who were forced to leave their homes and their possessions on the territories occupied by the Bulgarians, and to those who were forcibly driven to labour camps. (d) That all measures to be taken against Germany for her “reeducation,” by the United Nations be equally applied to Bulgaria. (e) Occupation of Bulgaria by the [Page 372] crimes [armies] of the United Nations, as a guarantee for the execution of the sanctions which will be applied on her, so that the Bulgarian people should be convinced that violence and crime do not pay for nations as well as for individuals.
Repeated to Murphy as No. 23.
- For Declaration of German Atrocities signed at Moscow, November 1, 1943, see Foreign Relations, 1943, vol. i, p. 768.↩