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CFM Files–Lot M 88, Box 31

Memorandum by the Secretary of State to the Assistant Secretary of State (Dunn)14

London, September 13, 1945.

As to the attached memoranda,15 I think I would go along with the Archbishop and agree that the plebiscite be postponed. The Regent suggests three years. That may be too long a period.16

J[ames] F. B[yrnes]
  1. The Secretary of State received the Greek Archbishop-Regent (Damaskinos) at the U.S. Embassy in London on the morning of September 13 at 10:30 a.m.; presumably this memorandum was written after the meeting.↩
  2. Memorandum of September 11 by Mr. Cannon to Mr. Dunn, p. 155, and memorandum of September 12 by the First Secretary of Embassy in the United Kingdom (Hare) to Mr. Dunn, not printed.↩
  3. Notation by the Assistant Secretary of State (Dunn), addressed to Messrs. Cannon and Hare, September 14: “The Secretary said he told the Regent he thought one year was enough.”↩