868.00/12–1244: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Greece (MacVeagh)
114. Declaration of United States policy attributed to Mr. Stettinius by December 3 issue of Rezospastis48 probably translation of OWI statement which had Department clearance and which was released for broadcast on Voice of America station the same day. Exact text follows: [Page 148]
“The ‘Voice of America’ has the authorization to point out once more that the United States policy has always been to refrain from any interference in the internal affairs of other nations. In conformity with this policy, the United States has scrupulously refrained from interfering in the affairs of other countries which have been liberated from the Germans. The United States Government will continue to refrain from interference in the affairs of other countries. Unless the military security of the Allied armies is at stake, the United States will make no attempt to influence the composition of any Government in any friendly country. The American people have naturally viewed with sympathy the aspirations of the resistance movements and the anti-Fascist elements in liberated countries. The American people know that these groups which fought so courageously against the Germans have no intention of hampering the present all important military operations against Germany.”