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    "ocrText": "157\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA\n\"NATIONAL AND\nECONOMIC COOPERATION ADMINISTRATION\nRECORDS\nOFFICE OF THE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE IN\nEUROPE\nquant\n55-a\nok\nNEA\nParis, February 28, 1949\nPERSONAL AND\nDear Dean:\nI am taking advantage of the willingness you expressed when I\nsaw you last month to receive from me on an entirely personal basis\ncertain expressions of my views. I have seen Ambassador Grady's\ntelegram 319 of February 21 regarding the situation in Greece and\nI thought you would be interested in my reaction to it.\nThe reports which I get from ECA people in Greece who come to\nParis and also from people of this office who have been recently\nin Greece are to the general effect that while there has certainly\nbeen some improvement in Greek governmental efficiency due to\nrecent cabinet changes, we continue to encounter much the same\ndifficulties as before in achieving concerted policies. Our\npeople in Greece have to spend a great deal of their time working\nwith individual ministries in order to get even an essential\nminimum of action and coordination. Both Sophoulis, the Premier,\nand Diomedes, the Vice Premier, are recognizedly too old and weary\nto pull their colleagues together effectively.\nI am personally convinced that we must continue to exercise\nstrong discreet pressure in this field. If we are to discharge\nthe responsibilities which we have assumed both vis-a-vis the Greek\npeople and our own, we must have, as long as the present emergency\nlasts, continued striving toward better leadership, greater efficiency\nand real coordination between some twenty ministries. My conclusion\nis that while there has been some improvement there are as yet no\ngrounds whatever for complacency.\nI am\nThe Honorable\nDean Acheson,\nSecretary of State,\nWashington.\nOFFICE OF WEAR EASTERN AND AFRICAN AFFAIRS\nDIRECTOR\nDECLASSIFIED\nE. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (3)\nMAR 7 -- 1949\n7.15.25\nDept. of State letter,\nPERSONAL AND\nBy NLT- He : NARS Date 4-20-76\nMR. SATTERTHWAITE\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE,"
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