868.00/6–2749: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Embassy in Yugoslavia
327. Shld appropriate occasion arise in conversation with Yugo officials, assume you will mention our continuing interest in question of assistance to Greek guerillas. Specifically shld you be questioned re what unfavorable developments we envisage might cause revocation of license for shipment blooming mill, you might state that while you have no specific instrs on subj it is of course clear that one such development would be evidence Yugos were again assisting Greek guerillas.1
- In mid-June 1949 the Department of State learned that the British Government was considering the possibility of extending sterling credits to Yugoslavia for the purchase of capital goods. Following discussions between officers of the Department and the British Embassy in Washington, the British Foreign Office suggested to British representatives in Belgrade that advantage be taken of the credit offer to reiterate to Yugoslav authorities the British concern over Yugoslav policy toward Greece and the Greek rebels. The American Embassy in Belgrade offered no objection to such a British démarche, but it stated the view that most qualified observers did not believe that Yugoslavia was currently assisting the Greek rebels. For documentation on this matter, see vol. v, pp. 854 ff.↩