Office of the Historian

795.00/12–250: Telegram

The Chargé in Greece (Maynard) to the Secretary of State

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Athens, December 2, 1950—8 p. m.
[Received December 2—1:49 a. m.]

1776. Reference Depcirtel 221, December 1. Prime Minister promises to send immediate instructions along following lines to Greek delegate at GA:

“American Embassy advises that six sponsors of vetoed Security Council resolution will join in proposing a new item on General Assembly’s agenda ‘Intervention of Central Government of Peoples Republic of China in Korea’. You are instructed to join wholeheartedly with United States delegate in referring this matter to GA and to fully support American position Korea.”1

Maynard
  1. Telegram 734 from Taipei, received at 1:55 a. m. on December 3, reported similar wholehearted support for the U.S. position being expressed by the Republic of China (795.00/12–350).↩