Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Eastern Europe; Finland; Greece; Turkey, Volume X, Part 2

297. Telegram From the Embassy in Greece to the Department of State⁰

Athens, August 3, 1960, 4 p.m.

296. Re Embassy telegram 293.¹

1. Extracting debt settlement seems about as difficult as pulling out walrus tusk with eyebrow tweezers—frozen walrus at that.

2. However, Secretary General Palamas now assures me that Gazis will leave for New York “by this week-end.”²

Briggs

0. Source: Department of State, Central Files, 881.10/8–360. Secret; Limit Distribution.
1. Telegram 293, August 3, reported that Karamanlis was apparently holding up Gazis’ departure for New York and that Briggs would attempt to prod the Greek Government into action. (Ibid.)
2. In telegram 367 to Athens, August 17, the Department informed Briggs that Gazis and Munro initialed a memorandum of understanding on the debt issue on August 11. (Ibid., 881.10/6–2960)