868.00/9–2049: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Embassy in Greece 1
1577. Deptel 3099 to Lon Aug 29, rptd Athens 1416, Paris 3204. Upon reexamination problem tripartite démarche Alb and for several reasons, notably coolness from some quarters to idea, time elapsed and fact GA now in session, Dept proposes suspending consideration démarche this time.
Ideas developed during exchange tels this subj can be impressed upon Albans, and more important, upon Russ during course GA discussions if appropriate, and devs there may lead to other possibilities of resolving problem.
[Page 423]Fr and Brit Embs here being advised accordingly. Fr Emb was told we wld see no objection to informal observations by Fr Min Tirana on appropriate occasion along lines that Alb wld have much to gain and nothing to lose by permitting neutral verification their claim re internment, disarmament guerrillas if made in good faith.2
- This telegram Was also sent to London as 3418, to Paris as 3521, to Belgrade as 559, to Moscow as 671, and to Sofia as 334.↩
- British Embassy Second Secretary Lord Jellicoe and French Embassy Second Secretary Jean-Claude Winckler were called to the Department of State on September 23 to be apprised of the decision set forth in this telegram. The British Foreign Office had already made known its gratification at the decision. Winckler stated that the French Foreign Ministry did not approve of the informal French démarche suggested in the third paragraph of this telegram. The French Foreign Ministry felt strongly that nothing should be done which might in any way serve to encourage or bolster the current Albanian regime (memorandum of conversation by Cromie, September 23, 1949: 868.00/9–2349).↩