Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1945, The Near East and Africa, Volume VIII

868.014/10–1945

Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, by the Assistant Chief of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs (Kohler)

[Washington,] October 19, 1945.

The Greek Ambassador called this morning and said he had been informed by an Allied Diplomatic Mission here (obviously British) that the prospective recognition of the Hoxha Regime in Albania would not in any sense involve any question of Albania’s frontiers.⁸⁹ The Ambassador was drafting a telegram on this subject and desired to be assured that this Government took the same position.

After checking with SE, I told him that if the Hoxha Régime were recognized, no question of frontiers would be involved in any way.

89. For exchange between the United States and the United Kingdom regarding this subject, within the context of the over-all question of the recognition of the Hoxha regime, see vol. iv, pp. 67–69.