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αυξανόμενη ανησυχία του αμερικανικού ΥΠΕΞ για την προπαγάνδα περί αυτονομίας
της "Μακεδονίας".
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τα αρχεία του State Department-26 Δεκεμβρίου του 1944
The Secretary of
State to Certain Diplomatic and Consular Officers 74
Washington, December
26, 1944—10:00 a.m.
The following is for your
information and general guidance, but not for any positive action at this time.
The Department has noted
with considerable apprehension increasing propaganda rumors and semi-official
statements in favor of an autonomous Macedonia, emanating principally from
Bulgaria, but also from Yugoslav Partisan and other sources, with the implication
that Greek territory would be included in the projected state. This Government
considers talk of Macedonian “nation,” Macedonian “Fatherland,” or Macedonian
“national consciousness” to be unjustified demagoguery representing no ethnic
nor political reality, and sees in its present revival a possible cloak for
aggressive intentions against Greece. [Page 303]
The approved policy of
this Government is to oppose any revival of the Macedonian issue as related to
Greece. The Greek section of Macedonia is largely inhabited by Greeks, and the
Greek people are almost unanimously opposed to the creation of a Macedonian
state. Allegations of serious Greek participation in any such agitation can be
assumed to be false. This Government would regard as responsible any Government
or group of Governments tolerating or encouraging menacing or aggressive acts
of “Macedonian forces” against Greece.
The Department would
appreciate any information pertinent to this subject which may come to your
attention.
Stettinius
[The Greek Embassy sent a
memorandum dated February 20, 1945, to the Department of State wherein
attention was again called to the deplorable conditions caused in Northern
Epirus for the Greek population by the mistreatment and attacks of various
Albanian governments during the war.
The group under Enver
Hoxha,75 whom
the Greek government characterized as an obedient follower of Tito,76 appeared
to be eager for the elimination of the Greek character of this region.77 The
Greek government had heard that Hoxha had sent an agent to the Allied Command
in Italy with the object of gaining recognition as the provisional government
of Albania for his group.78
The Greek government felt
certain that no consideration would be given to this attempt, because it could
lend encouragement to Hoxha’s efforts to destroy the Greek people in Northern
Epirus who were counting upon the Allies to rescue them from the persecutions
they had suffered during a quarter century under Albanian rule.79]
74.The diplomatic officers at Sofia, Caserta, Bucharest,
London, Athens, Moscow, and Ankara, the Consul-General at Istanbul, and Gardner
Patterson at London, on a Treasury mission to Bulgaria, Rumania, and
Yugoslavia.↩
75.Enver Hoxha (Hodja), Colonel General and Leader of the
Albanian National Liberation Army (ANLA); on October 22 (Congress of Berat) he
became Prime Minister and Minister of War and National Defense of the Provisional
Government of Albania.↩
76.Marshal Tito (Josip Broz), President of the National
Committee of Liberation of Yugoslavia.↩
77.Other memoranda outlining in some detail alleged cases
of violence by the Albanian partisans were submitted to the Department by the
Greek Embassy on March 23 (No. 1013, 768.75/3–2345), June 1 (No. 1833,
868.00/6–145), June 8 (No. 1862, 868.00/6–845), and June 27 (No. 2080,
768.75/6–2745); and on May 22 the First Secretary of the Greek Embassy
(Christopoulos) made oral representations on this subject and on the Macedonian
situation. The Department repeated the May 22 memorandum of conversation, p. 314, to Tirana
in airgram 4, June 12 (868.014/6–1245) and the texts of the Greek Embassy memoranda
of June 1 and June 8 in airgrams 3 and 5, respectively, to Tirana, dated June
12 (868.00/6–145, 6–1245), asking for comment.↩
78. For documentation regarding this subject, see vol. iv, pp. 1 ff.↩
79. This subject was developed at considerable length in
Greek Embassy memorandum 581, March 2 (868.014/3–245).↩
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