Editorial Note
Ambassador Dendramis called on Assistant Secretary of State Rusk at the Department of State on May 26 to deliver a memorandum by the Greek Embassy (868.00/5–2649). The memorandum stated the position of the Coordinating Council of the Greek Government on recent developments in the Greek situation and on communiqués of May 20 by the Department of State and the British Foreign Ofiice. (Regarding the American and British statements of May 20, see the editorial note, page 329.) The Coordinating Council felt that the Greek Government should be informed at the time of any international conversations on the Greek situation and that such discussions should be kept to a minimum before conclusion of military operations. The Council, also known as the “inner Cabinet,” consisted of the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Army Commander in Chief, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, War, Navy, and Air, and the leaders of the political parties participating in the Greek Government. (A memorandum on the conversation with Dendramis by Rusk on May 26, is in Department of State file 501.BB Balkan/5–2649.) Telegram Telac 21, May 26, to Paris, transmitted the text of the Greek Embassy’s memorandum to Secretary of State Acheson and advised him that forthcoming conversations with Greek authorities probably would obviate the need of responding directly to the memorandum (868.00/5–2649).