860S.00/9–1547: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Douglas) to the Secretary of State
4981. We talked today with Foreign Office officials in Southern and Western Departments concerning Trieste. Both Departments believe that we should be in no hurry to find a governor of Trieste. All suggestions up to the present time have been refused by Moscow and it is now up to the Russians to present the name of a candidate who would be satisfactory to us. We should in no event, they said “accept any old governor”.
Officials remarked that it is to our advantage, unless a good governor can be found, to have the existing situation continue as long as possible.
Officials with whom we talked said Jebb,1 who has gone to UN, shares these views and will air them in New York.
Sent Department 4981, repeated Rome 106 Moscow 291, Paris 522.
- Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, Assistant Under-Secretary of State and United Nations Adviser in the British Foreign Office since May 18, 1946.↩