840.50 UNRRA/1–845: Telegram
The Ambassador in Greece (MacVeagh) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 9—12:40 p.m.]
26. To AGWAR68 for Hilldring from Sadler. Attention invited to my radio January69 reur radio subject UNRRA. Am in entire agreement that UNRRA should take over as soon as possible. Recommendations have gone forward through AFHQ70 that UNRRA take over April 1, 1945 which I feel is earliest date they would be ready. This can be done provided UNRRA get immediately qualified personnel as referred to in my last cable. Believe they can take over some districts and regions sooner. UNRRA has some qualified technical supply people. Needs a head distribution man badly. Agree that Sadler and some supply and technical men should remain to help and advise UNRRA getting started.
Political situation here improving. Military situation greatly improved, Athens, Piraeus, now entirely clear of rebels.71 Have big relief job in this area, situation Salonika and Patras tense.
Am leaving today for Bari via Caserta re Yugoslav and Albanian missions. Will radio from there on Yugoslav and Albanian situation. [Sadler.]
- Adjutant General’s Office of the War Department.↩
- Telegram 16, January 4, 1945, 3 p.m., from Athens, not printed.↩
- Allied Force Headquarters at Caserta.↩
- For documentation on the revolution that began at Athens on December 3, 1944, and the intervention by British military forces, see Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. v, pp. 141–179, passim, and ante, pp. 98–193, passim.↩