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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Records of the Naval Aide to the President (Truman Administration)
State Department Briefs Files
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Stuart, John Leighton, 1876-1962
MacVeagh, Lincoln, 1890-1972
Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount, 1887-1976
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON
December 5, 1946
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
CHINA
Ambassador Stuart believes that whether the Chinese National
Assembly now in session and the constitution which it will
adopt will in the end prove to be just another sham or whether the General-
issimo will throw his weight behind the abolition of one-party dictatorship
and in favor of constitutional government remains to be seen.
GREECE
Field Marshall Montgomery has informed Ambassador MacVeagh
that he has advised the Greek Government to devote this
winter to converting the entire Greek Army into a specially trained and
equipped force for bandit fighting and to take the field in the spring and
totally eradicate banditry in Greece. Montgomery believes the guerillas
can be wiped out but that if they are not, Greece is lost. He said he
hopes we will help Greece economically.
A UK Foreign Office Official has informed our Embassy in
London that it disagrees with some British military men in Greece who do
not think the situation is as grave as it is painted and believe the Greek
Government is exaggerating the situation along its borders in order to per-
suade the British to furnish more arms.
Our representative in Bulgaria believes we are approaching
a period when conditions along the Bulgarian-Greek frontier will become
similar to those obtaining along the Yugoslav and Albanian side of the
frontiers with Greece. He is convinced that unless the US and UK insist on
a discussion with the USSR concerning its aims in southeastern Europe, the
creation of an enlarged Macedonia within a Yugoslav federation will become
a fait accompli.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
By NLT- He
NARS, Date 11-12-10