Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1944, The Near East, South Asia, and Africa, The Far East, Volume V

868.00/12–2844: Telegram

The Ambassador in Greece (MacVeagh) to the Secretary of State

Athens, December 28, 1944—4 p.m.
[Received December 29—9:30 a.m.]

194. I desire to thank the Department for the information conveyed in its No. 151 of December 27, 1 p.m.⁷⁵ just received. Mr. Churchill has left Athens, and I greatly regret that my long conversation with him yesterday (see my 190, of December 27, 7 p.m. for the President) had to be carried on without my knowledge of this important background.

MacVeagh

75. Not printed; it informed Ambassador MacVeagh of President Roosevelt’s telegram No. 673, December 13, to Prime Minister Churchill, p. 150.