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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Under Secretary of State (Welles)

[ Washington ,] October 10, 1941.

The Greek Minister called to see me. The Minister stated that now that the King of the Hellenes and the Greek Government were established [Page 752] in London, he hoped that a new American Minister would be appointed near that Government to replace Mr. MacVeagh.

I said I would be very happy to take this matter up with the President and that I felt sure that the President would desire Mr. Biddle to be accredited to the Greek Government. I said that as soon as I received the President’s approval I would request the agrément for Mr. Biddle through the Minister.33

S[umner] W[elles]
  1. President Roosevelt gave his approval, October 14, 1941, and Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., was appointed Minister to Greece, November 13, 1941.↩