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Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, by Mr. William O. Baxter of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs
The Greek Ambassador21 telephoned today to inform me that he and Mr. Varvaressos22 are to see the President of the Export-Import Bank23 tomorrow afternoon and to ask that the memorandum of a conversation last fall24 along the same lines be made available to Mr. Wayne Chatfield Taylor before the interview tomorrow afternoon.
At the same time the Ambassador told me that recent conversations with the Export-Import Bank had been most encouraging. Bank officials indicated the strong probability that a credit could be established in the near future for the purchase in this country of materials to revive Greek industry; that the Bank would be willing to send two experts to Greece to study the situation; and that credits might be opened for certain Greek banking institutions in Greece, not to the Greek Government.
- Cimon P. Diamantopoulos.↩
- Mr. Varvaressos, en route to the San Francisco Conference, called on Assistant Secretary of State Clayton on April 17 to pay his respects; he also had talks with Treasury officials (868.51/4–2545).↩
- Wayne Chatfield Taylor.↩
- Apparently memorandum of conversation of November 2, 1944 by the Associate Chief of the Division of Financial and Monetary Affairs (Luthringer), not printed; for summary of conversation, see telegram 4, November 7, 1944, 6 p.m., to Athens, Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. v, p. 224.↩