Editorial Note
On September 12, John G. Campbell, Acting Chief of the Division of Southeast European Affairs, prepared a policy paper, presumably in connection with the Secretary of State’s forthcoming conversation with British Foreign Secretary Bevin on various Balkan matters (see the record of their conversation on September 14, page 414). For the text of the Campbell paper, see volume V, page 311.
The future of the Albania regime, the interests of Yugoslavia, Greece, and the Western Powers in Albania, and the possibilities which were open to the United States in the area were questions which were also considered in the Policy Planning Staff’s paper PPS 60, September 12, “Yugoslav-Moscow Controversy as Related to U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives.” These same Albanian questions were considered again in the subsequent Report by the National Security Council to President Truman, NSC 18/4, November 17, “United States Policy Toward the Conflict between the USSR and Yugoslavia.” For text of document PPS 60, see ibid., page 947. NSC 18/4 could not be declassified for publication with other 1949 documents.