Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "213875034",
    "label": "Report, Editorial Reaction to Current Issues, Greek Situation, Part III",
    "core": "doc",
    "dtoType": "document",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/213875034"
}

{
    "id": "213875034",
    "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/213875034",
    "contentType": "document",
    "title": "Report, Editorial Reaction to Current Issues, Greek Situation, Part III",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/213875034",
    "collections": [
        "President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration)",
        "Subject Files"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/hst-psf/602191/750296/750296-22-001.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/hst-psf/602191/750296/750296-22-001.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/hst-psf/602191/750296/750296-22-001.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "hasImages": true,
    "source": "import",
    "hasTranscription": false
}

{
    "url": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/213875034",
    "naId": 213875034,
    "levelOfDescription": "item",
    "productionDates": [
        {
            "day": 2,
            "logicalDate": "1947-04-02",
            "month": 4,
            "year": 1947
        }
    ],
    "recordType": "description",
    "ocrSource": "nara-archive"
}

{
    "seq": 4,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/hst-psf/602191/750296/750296-22-004.jpg",
    "mediaId": "378f5d3b9e5260e5",
    "ocrText": "Methods and control (Cont'd\n1 endorses appointment of Hoover to direct economic aid; see him best\nqualified for task.\n1 advocates strict supervision of spending of funds in interests of American\ntaxpayer who pays the bill; feels funds might better come from Inter-\nnational Bank.\n1 says the President should not be given blank check for handling funds; ad-\nvises using executive-legislative group along line of Joint Chiefs of Staff.\n4 are not surprised by Russian reaction asneflected in Izvestia and Pravda.\n1 feels it may be well for us to openly indicate our distrust of Russia.\n1 believes the President program spells doom of Moscow Conference.\n20 on Greek phase of proposal.\n12 declare our first job is to stave off economic collapse in Greece, then\nstrengthen her defenses and prevent imposition of totalitarian government\nby outside force.\n3 find helpful fact that government and opposition party in Greek parliament\nhave pledged cooperation.\n2 endorse proposal to shift surplus goods of WAA to Greece rather than send\nnew machinery badly needed here.\n1\nwould substitute for $400,000,000 fund the use of Greece and Turkey for\nasylum for our \"politiciens who were incubated by the new deal into ex-\nponents of the pink ideologies\". (Bluefield, W.Va., Telegraph, 3/22)\n1 accuses Administration of seeking to set up a New Deal in Greece.\n(NY PM, 3/21)\n1 doesn't like the idea of Britain putting incompetent King on Greek throne\nand then asking Uncle Sam to act as receiver and pay the costs. (Charlotte\nNews & Observer, 3/22)\n14 on Turkish phase of proposal.\n6 favor aid as vital to combat Russian aggression.\n7 ridicule NY Daily Worker's charge that the President is \"1the willing mouth-\npiece of the Standard Oil trust in the Middle East\" and that giving aid to\nTurkey would be \"to bribe the Turkish tyranny into acting as the quisling-\npolice state for Wall Street investments\"; offer: as refutation fact New\nARCHIVES \"NATIONAL AMD\nYork Stock Exchange was made unsteady and jittery by Truman speech and\nRECORDS\nrelated events. (Almost identical editorials in non-chain papers, 3/21,\nEs\n3/22, 3/23)\n1 endorses LaGuardia opposition on grounds Turkey has exportable surpluses of\nfood and never keeps her word in foreign matters. (Raleigh News & Observer,\n3/23)\n1 disagree with Churchill that present situation is similar to that before last\nwar; sees little basis for fearing Russian move at this time.\n1\nfeels Americans should not be surprised by British fear of our aid program.\n1 charges real issue in Greek crisis stems from \"off-hand cocktail-party de-\ncision\" to attack Germany from West instead of from Southeast; call it \"true\nresult\" of Roosevelt policy during last war.\n1 claims only hairsplitters are charging inconsistency in our attitudes toward\nGreece and China.\n2 wonder why we are so concerned about Communism in Greece and Balkans while we\nignore a greater threat in China and Korea.\n3 welcome Truman policy toward Russia as big aid to combatting Communism at home.\n1 approves aid to Groece and Turkey but endorses resolution in Congress proposing\na United States of Europe within framework of UN to work against imperialism\nfrom generation to generation.\n340\n- -oo\n- 2- -"
}