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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\nthat he would have their Ambassador in Athens -- I didn't know\nthey still had an Ambassador in Athent check with the Greeks\nbefore they make any decision on sending Gunes\nto Geneva.\nA. That comes back to what I was saying about what Secretary\nof Stat e and Ecevit agreed. If learned tonight definitively that\nGreeks would not be in Geneva tomorrow, we would not go. We\nwent to some trouble to establish what time Gunes1 departure was\nE. You agreed that if you learned tonight that the Greeks, in fact,\nwere not going, we you would put off for 24 hours, would not go tomorrow ?\nA. Absolute chaos on this side deciding when absolute moment was\nwhen we could decide. Ecevit and Foreign Secretary agreed that\nif established definitively that Greeks could not be represented in\nGeneva tomorrow, we would not go and would get in touch with Gunes\nin time to stop him. This was 5:00 m. I think we probably have\nestablished definitively that there won't be any Greeks in Geneva\ntomorrow. Question really now is whether go ahead with the meeting\non Thursday or not.\nE. I just wanted to reinforce Kissinger's view that even day after\ntomorrow if there is no Greek there we think it is a mistake to have\na meeting.\nA: What would he think about a straightforward bilatemal meeting,\nAnglo-Turk meeting, in London.\nE. I don't know what Henry's view on that would be. My guess is\nit puts you in awkward position with Greeks. It seems to be of some\nconcern to Henry now that we take a balanced position with both\ndisputant parties. This is my own view, not Henry's. We obviously\nfall behind here, not knowing exactly what facts are.\nA. I think we may have to talk again. My principal is rather tired and\nI am not quite sure he is going to take a great deal more interest this\nevening.\nE. What is your report on the Greek situation right now ?\nA. Athens is in an uproar. Our Ambassador there described it as like\nGreece that won the world cup. Karamanlis has not yet arrived but is on\nhis way and our information is that he is on his way to head a government."
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