740.00119 E.W./11–1544
The Department of State to the Greek Embassy
Memorandum
The Department of State refers to the memorandum of the Royal Greek Embassy dated November 15, 1944,61a requesting the support of the United States Government in securing an early application of the provisions of Article 9 of the Bulgarian Armistice terms and of Article 1 of the Protocol to the Armistice.
The Department is pleased to inform the Embassy that appropriate steps have already been taken in furtherance of the Embassy’s request under reference. The United States Government has requested that the claim of the Greek Government for deliveries in kind, as set forth in the memoranda of August 24 and September 22 submitted to the European Advisory Commission by the Greek Ambassador at London, be referred to the Allied Control Commission for Bulgaria, and has urged the immediate delivery of foodstuffs from Bulgaria to Greece as provided in the Bulgarian Armistice Protocol and the early consideration by the Allied Control Commission of the Greek Government’s request for deliveries in kind.
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