740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/4–545: Telegram
The Ambassador in Greece (MacVeagh) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 6—7:25 a.m.]
338. I have communicated informally to the Minister for Foreign Affairs11 the suggestions contained in paragraph 4 of the Department’s 256, March 23, 10 p.m.12 but I have not so far received any definite reply, though Mr. Sophianopoulos has expressed to me verbally his pleasure at this evidence of American interest.
In the meantime, the British Embassy, after receipt of similar instructions, has discussed the matter with the chief of the Political Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who is said to have expressed apprehension lest the Greek Government, in following the [Page 183] American and British suggestions, suffer Soviet rebuff. The British Embassy has informed London, Washington and Moscow in this sense and has requested further elucidation of the reasons which prompted the British delegation on the ACC to propose that this action be taken by Greece in advance of Soviet approval—a proposal which it may be noted, the British Embassy seems to be under the impression originated with the British Ambassador in Moscow.