Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947, The Near East and Africa, Volume V

868.00/12–2947: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Embassy in Greece

secret

Washington, December 29, 1947—6 p. m.

2070. Note¹ presented Dept Dec 26 by Grk Amb outlining steps which Grk Govt considers necessitated by announcement “Free Grk Govt” and requesting US views contains statement that Grk Govt has already filed (1) protest with Yugo Govt concerning use of Yugo radio facilities for guerrilla announcements and (2) protests to UN along with “request that attention UNSCOB, UN Secretariat General and standing committee UNGA be called to these developments”. Text these two protests not yet available to Dept although text of letter Dec 24 from Grk Liaison Representative to UNSCOB received (Combal 47, Dec 28²).

In view extreme importance that strategy for future UN action be carefully thought out and coordinated between US and Grk Govts and in view newspaper reports that Grk Govt intends initiate SC consideration you should urgently request MinFonAff or PriMin to take no further action vis-à-vis UN without previous consultation with Dept. Extremely important that all such action be fully correlated and utilize most effective approach under Charter.³

Sent Athens 2070; rptd USUN 618, Salonika 166 (Balcom 51).

Lovett

1. No. 136, not printed, but see footnote 1, p. 465.
2. This telegram, from Salonika, not printed.
3. In telegram 2274, December 31, the Embassy in Athens reported information from Panayotis Pipinelis, the Greek Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, of the firm intention of the Greek Government to continue to coordinate fully with the United States concerning any U.N. action (868.00/12–3147).