Lot 122: Secretary’s Staff Committee Documents 1–45
Memorandum by the Assistant Chief of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs (Kohler)61a
[Here follows discussion of the situation in Greece.]
Ambassador MacVeagh recently suggested that a tripartite Allied commission in charge of elections and a plebiscite might solve the Greek problem. In transmitting this suggestion to the President, the Department pointed out that the British would probably veto Russian participation and that this Government should not intervene on a purely Anglo-American basis. However, Mr. Eden’s remarks in the House on December 21 [20] that “If our Allies will come and help” in organizing free elections, “their help will be welcomed”61b would appear to indicate that the British Government may in fact be considering some such action. It is believed that we should be prepared to take an active part in a tripartite commission if requested to do so.
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- Prepared for the Secretary’s Staff Committee. The Committee met on December 26, and the following action was reported in the minutes: “Greek Situation. Approved the recommendation that we should be prepared, if requested to do so, to consider sympathetically sharing responsibility in the administration of impartial plebiscite.” (Lot 122: Secretary’s Staff Committee Summary of Action)↩
- Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 406, col. 1909.↩