Editorial Note
On August 2, 1949, the United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans completed and signed in Athens its report to the Fourth Session of the United Nations General Assembly. The Report, which was adopted unanimously, covered the period from October 1948 to July 1949, and dealt with the organization and functioning of the Special Committee; reviewed the conciliatory role of the Special Committee; described in some detail the external support given to the Greek guerrilla forces; described the cooperation of the Special Committee with other international organizations on such matters as international refugees, internal refugees in Greece, and the Greek children removed from Greece; and submitted some conclusions. It was the conclusion of the Special Committee that Albania and Bulgaria had continued to render moral and material assistance to the Greek guerrilla forces and that Albania was the principal source of material assistance. For the text of the report, originally designated document A/AC.16/800 and subsequently released to the press on August 20 and published on August 25 as U.N. doc. A/935, see United Nations, Official Records of the General Assembly, Fourth Session, Supplement No. 8, Report of the United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans. For the text of the report (less the annexes) together with a summary account [Page 380] by Harry N. Howard, see Department of State Bulletin, September 19, 1949, pages 407–433. The last-named item was subsequently reprinted (with the addition of Annexes 1, 4, and 5 of the Report and a Chronology) as Harry N. Howard, Greece and the United Nations 1946–49: A Summary Record, Department of State Publication 3645, International Organization and Conference Series III, 40 (Washington, Department of State, Office of Public Affairs, 1949). For the text of the conclusions of the report, see Margaret Carlyle, editor, Documents on International Affairs 1949–50, issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1953), pages 233–235.