740.00119 Council/12–246: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of State, at New York
Secdel 1214. For the Secretary. Greek Amb today [November 29]23 delivered orally communication from his govt substantially as follows:
Greek Govt has considered views expressed by Dept officials early this month to effect that time is inopportune to press Greek territorial claims against Albania and Bulgaria, and that such action would handicap US and Britain in attempts resolve Greek difficulties with neighboring states.24
Nevertheless Greek Govt still wishes to ask consideration of claims as stated in Amb’s communication Nov 1 to Sec Gen of CFM.25 Feels these claims, which Amb said are less extensive than those presented [Page 1381] at Paris, are justifiable. Points out that no objection has been raised to Netherlands’ request for cession of rich German territory containing perhaps 100,000 Germans. With respect to efforts to adjust difficulties with northern neighbors, Greek Govt considers attitude of those states has become so clear that territorial question can have no effect on it either way.
Amb requested these views be conveyed to Secretary.
Sent CFM, Amdel, New York; rptd Athens.
- The correction of the date was made in telegram Secdel 1232, December 6, to the Secretary at New York (740.00119 Council/12–246).↩
- Reference here is presumably to the conversation on November 4 between Acting Secretary of State Acheson and Ambassador Diamantopoulos; see the memorandum of conversation of that date, vol. vii, p. 258, and also telegram 1385, October 24, to Athens, ibid., p. 245. For documentation of the period of the Third Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers on the question of the disturbances along Greece’s border with Albania and Bulgaria and the consideration of that question by the United Nations, see ibid., pp. 88 ff.↩
- The communication under reference is presumably Ambassador Diamantopoulos’ note of October 30, 1946, to the Council of Foreign Ministers, p. 956.↩