FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1949, VOLUME VI


   The Foreign Office wish to emphasise the importance which they
 attach to the conversation between Tito and MacLean being kept very
 secret. Apart from anything else, MacLean has pointed out that if
 the statements made to him about Greece became public property,
 this might ruin the chance of him having such an outspoken conversa-
 tion with Tito again. -5
   30th"TJUNE 1949.

   According to a diary account in A Long Row of Candles, pp. 447-448, chief
 New York Times foreign correspondent Sulzberger discussed the May conversa-
 tion between Tito and MacLean with Ambassador Cannon in Paris on June 14.
 Tito informed MacLean categorically that Yugoslavia was sending no more
aid to
 the Greek rebels. All copies of Ambassador Peake's telegraphic report to
the
 Foreign Office on the conversation were destroyed. Ambassador Cannon did
not
 report on the Tito-MacLean conversation to the Department of State because
 he had been enjoined to complete secrecy.


                           Editorial Note
   Yugoslav Ambassador Sava N. Kosanovi6 paid a courtesy.call on
Secretary of :State Acheson on July 1 just prior to returning to Bel-
grade for consultation. The memorandum      of the conversation, by
John C. Campbell, Acting iChief of the Division of Southeast Euro-
pean Affairs, dated July 1. indicates that' Ambassador Kosanovic
took the opportunity to express his appreciation for what the United
States had done to improve economic relations with Yugoslavia. For
his part, the Secretary of State suggested that Ambassador Kosanovi6
talk with Ambassador Cannon in Belgrade on a-ny matter of Ameri-
can-Yugoslav relations which might warrant discussion, particularly
the question of Yugoslav aid to the Greek guerrillas. Ambassador
Kosanovi6 stated that he did not believe that Yugoslavia was cur-
rently doing any more than to receive refugees from the guerrilla
side and maintain them in camps, and he thought that no material
aid such as arms was being sent from Yugoslavia into Greece. The
Secretary of State pointed out to Ambassador Kosanovic that the
cessation of Yugoslav aid to the Greek guerrillas would be very help-
ful to the United States. (711.6011/7-149)
  Following his brief visit to Belgrade, Ambassador Kosanovi6.called
on the Secretary of State on August 16. Much of that conversation
was devoted to American-Yugoslav economic relations, but Ambassa-
dor Kosanovi6 did mention the previous discussion of the Yugoslav-
Greek frontier, and he referred to Marshal Tito's speech at Pola on
July 10 announcing the closing of the frontier. For text of the memo-
randum of this August 16 conversation,-see volume V, page 924.'


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