740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/4–545: Telegram
The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:38 p.m.]
184. I have not failed to note the Department’s view that our present participation in the ACC in Bulgaria is defined by the armistice with Bulgaria and is not modified by any agreement that Mr. Eden may have reached in Moscow. Nevertheless, I have on several occasions pointed out in my telegrams that the last meeting (it was the second) of the Commission as a body of representatives of the three principal Allied powers was held December 28 and that I doubted very much that another meeting would be held before the termination of hostilities with Germany.
At the middle of March Generals Crane and Oxley wrote separately to General Biryusov listing a fairly large number of subjects that were outstanding for discussion between the three representatives of the Allied powers on the Control Commission and requesting a meeting of that body. General Biryusov, after nearly three weeks delay, has now replied that he does not believe it will be possible for him to hold a meeting of the Commission at an early date, but that the American and British representatives may individually see him personally or write to him about any pending matters. In the meantime, the Commission goes its Russian way with ourselves and the British left completely in the dark as to what its activities really are.
Repeated to Moscow as No. 82 and AmPolAd as 93.