Office of the Historian

863.5018/12–2645: Telegram

The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, December 26, 1945—6 p.m.
[Received December 27—11:34 a.m.]

779. Dept’s 359, November l.50 Bulgarian Govt now states apparently with full support of Russian authorities on ACC that Bulgarian [Page 417] foodstuffs and fodder in such short supply due to 1945 drought that country cannot provide any assistance for Austria “or any other country” from this year’s agricultural production. Agricultural production figures supporting this contention have been supplied to Generals Crane and Oxley.

Sent Dept as 779; repeated Vienna as 3.

Barnes
  1. Not printed, but see telegram 10181, Delsec 86, October 1, 3 p.m., from London, and footnote 35, vol. iii, p. 620.↩