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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Acting Secretary of State
| Participants: | Mr. Cimon P. Diamantopoulos, Greek Ambassador |
| Mr. John Sofianopoulos, Greek Foreign Minister46 | |
| Mr. Grew, Acting Secretary |
The Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Sofianopoulos, called on me this afternoon with the Greek Ambassador and discussed various problems of interest to Greece.
(1) Greece’s need for economic assistance. This question was discussed at length and I pointed out our desire to be of the greatest possible aid to Greece in helping her to get back to a stable economic life, but I also explained our problems in this connection, which applied [Page 229] to many of the countries in Europe, notably the needs of our Army and the difficulty of finding available supplies and the shipping to move them.
[Here follows a general and brief discussion of Greek territorial problems involving Bulgaria and Albania,47 the question of the recognition by the United States of the Government of Albania,48 and Soviet-Turkish relations.49]
- Mr. Sofianopoulous arrived in Washington July 4, after the conclusion of the San Francisco Conference where he had headed the Greek delegation.↩
- For documentation on this subect, see pp. 300 ff.↩
- For documentation on this subject, see vol. iv, pp. 1 ff.↩
- For documentation on this subject, see pp. 1219 ff.↩