A month ago, concerned over reports from Greece, Secretary of State George Marshall secretly sent a special envoy to make an appraisal. The man he sent was Major General Stephen Chamberlin, the War Department's Director of Intelligence. Last week, General Chamberlin was back. His report, in a nutshell: the U.S. experiment in Greecethe first application of the Truman Doctrineis going very badly.
The 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...
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