Word: macveagh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Along with more aid, Greece would soon get a new U.S. Ambassador. President Truman last week relieved scholarly, ailing Lincoln MacVeagh from the post he had held for eleven years, appointed him to the less demanding job of Ambassador to Portugal. MacVeagh's successor in Greece had not yet been chosen...
...failure could be put down to two main causes: 1) the appalling weakness of the Greek Army; 2) a personal feud between the two equal U.S. plenipotentiaries in Athens, Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh and Dwight Griswold, special head of the U.S. mission...
General Chamberlin, it was learned, recommended that the U.S. 1) increase its military aid at least to the point of assigning U.S. officers as advisers to Greek division commanders, and 2) abolish the special mission to Greece and concentrate the entire U.S. effort under one man. As between MacVeagh and Griswold, General Chamberlin recommended MacVeagh...
...ambassadorial reports had advocated economic aid to Greece. Last week it seemed to MacVeagh that the economic program would be far from enough. Real construction could hardly begin until guerrilla activity was contained. That might take a momentous decision by U.N. with the U.S. in the forefront...
...MacVeagh's plane took off, loaded with official pouches and situation maps, he could see down below the little town of Chasia, just eleven miles from Athens. The night before, guerrillas had attacked it; it was the closest they had come to the capital...