124.60H/7–144: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador to the Yugoslav Government in Exile (MacVeagh), at Cairo
Yugos 39. Department’s 29 June 17.14 The Department is now arranging, under the President’s authorization, to accredit Mr. Schoenfeld as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim near the Yugoslav Government at London, and to relieve you of the Yugoslav mission.
Major changes in your organization are not contemplated, however. It is believed that those Yugoslav matters most important to us in the conduct of the war, and as a basis for our long-term relations with Yugoslavia such as the coordination of political, military, economic, relief, refugee and propaganda activities, will continue to be handled in your area and through organizations with which you already are or will be working. Moreover the concentration in the Mediterranean area of major planning and negotiation activities with respect to other [Page 1383] Balkan countries is expected to continue. The Department desires that an appropriate staff be maintained at Cairo to perform these important and diverse functions under your direction.15
- Not printed.↩
- In a letter of June 20, 1944, the Secretary of State had recommended to the President that Ambassador MacVeagh remain in Cairo. He felt that in the foreseeable future all the principal matters in United States relations with Yugoslavia would be handled in the Mediterranean area, and added that “these questions, from our point of view, are much more important than the matter of formal relations with a Government which more and more is being obliged to conform to British plans.” (123/MacVeagh, Lincoln/6–2044)↩