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    "ocrText": "J. 333305MONO-State\nGalley 757\nUNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF\nwith Yugoslavia at this stage and that full reparation must be made\nto Greece before there can be any question of such negotiations being\nresumed. His Majesty's Government consider that Marshal Tito\nshould simultaneously be informed of the objections seen by the vic-\ntorious Powers to the conclusion of a Yugoslav-Bulgarian pact. His\nMajesty's Government would be glad to learn the views of the Soviet\nGovernment upon this matter as soon as possible.\nBohlen Collection\nBritish Proposal Regarding Greek Claims on Bulgaria\n1\n1 Attached to the Page minutes of the Foreign Ministers' meeting on February\n10, 1945. See ante, p. A copy of this document is in the Department files,\nnumbered 740.00119E. W./2-1145.\nTOP SECRET\n[YALTA, February 10, 1945.]\nGREEK CLAIMS UPON BULGARIA, MORE PARTICULARLY IN REGARD\nTO REPARATIONS\nHis Majesty's Government are concerned regarding the position\nin regard to Greek claims against Bulgaria. On the occasion of the\nsignature of the Armistice with Hungary, the Soviet Government\ninformed the Czechoslovak and Yugoslav Governments that they\nmight send representatives to be accredited to the Hungarian\nControl Commission for the purpose of dealing with all questions\naffecting their particular government.\nOn January 23rd the Greek Government, with the support of His\nMajesty's Embassy in Moscow, approached the Soviet Government\nwith a request for facilities in Bulgaria similar to those granted to the\nCzechoslovak and Yugoslav Governments in Hungary. No reply\nhas, however, yet been vouchsafed to this request by the Soviet\nGovernment.\nThe Greek people have suffered very seriously from Bulgarian dep-\nredations and are in the view of His Majesty's Government entitled\nto early satisfaction and to immediate reparation deliveries of which\nGreece stands in urgent need. The Greek Government have already\npresented to the Bulgarian Control Commission a list of commodities\nnecessary to the Greek economy and due to them in virtue of the\nBulgarian Armistice Agreement, the delivery of which to Greece in\nthe immediate future is essential to the maintenance of Greek economy.\nDeliveries which are more urgently required comprise, inter alia, food\nstuffs, locomotives, agricultural implements and live-stock. Further-\nmore, in view of the decision incorporated in the Hungarian armistice\nterms allotting to Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia fixed sums payable\nin commodities as reparations over a period of six years, it is in the\nview of His Majesty's Government equitable that similar arrangements\nshould be made to fix a lump sum due to Greece by Bulgaria to be\npaid similarly in commodities over a period of six years. In the view\nof His Majesty's Government a corresponding sum should be allocated\nto Yugoslavia which has also suffered from Bulgarian occupation.\nIn this connection his Majesty's Government desire to make it clear\nthat, while they are in general opposed to the fixing of lump sums for\nreparations to be exacted from enemy countries, they consider it only\nequitable, in view of the fact that lump sums have been allocated to\nthe Soviet, Czechoslovak and Yugoslav Governments under the"
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