860H.01/592: Telegram
The Ambassador to the Yugoslav Government in Exile (MacVeagh) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 27—10:20 a.m.]
14. [Yugoslav Series.] Following text of communication dated December 21, 1943, from Yugoslav Prime Minister is transmitted at Mr. Puritch’s request:
“I shall be very grateful to you if you would be so good as to communicate the following to the Government of the United States of America:
“The Royal Yugoslav Government have the honor to transmit herewith the declaration issued on November 29 by the ‘anti-Fascist council of Yugoslavia’ and broadcast by the radio station ‘free Yugoslavia’ on December 18, 1943, which appears to be in complete discordance with the public and official statements made by the British and American responsible statesmen in connection with the military aid given to the Partisans.
“The Royal Yugoslav Government feel themselves obliged to point out the incoherence of the adopted policy to support in every possible way a revolutionary movement which claims to be ‘this supreme and the only representative of the sovereignty of the Yugoslav peoples and is trying to impose—by the force of the arms received, too—to the whole of Yugoslav territories a definite social and political organization. No military reason seems to be sufficient to justify to [the] support afforded to such a movement both in materials and moral backing by all available means of.”
The declaration referred to summarized in my telegram No. 8 of December 18, 10 p.m., and transmitted in full in my A–2, December 20, 11 a.m.77
- Latter not printed.↩