868.48/582: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Greece (Atherton)
51. Your 117 and 118 August 7, 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Department approves of your action in informing the Minister for Foreign Affairs that you were unable to accept the bargain which he proposed. Information has not yet been received which would enable the Department to state whether the Near East Belief would consider continuing adult refugee feeding in Constantinople for the limited period mentioned but is of the opinion that the Greek Government should make its own decisions without attempting to involve this Government or American charitable agencies. You may continue to present the problem as one concerning the Greek and Turkish Governments alone. Report whether Foreign Minister continues conversations in the line of your 117, and repeat to Constantinople as 153.