U.S. Against Increasing Greeks Armed Forces

Wanganui Chronicle, 14 April 1949, Page 5

U.S. Against Increasing Greeks Armed Forces

NEW YORK, April 12 (Rec. 8.30 pm).—The United States has rejected i the British suggestion that the Greek Army and Air Force should b,e increased in a new effort to end the Greek war in 1949, says the “New York Times’ ” diplomatic correspondend in a dispatch from Washington. He says the suggestion was made by the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Bevin, during a conference with Mr. i Dean Acheson last week Mr. Ache-|

son is believed to have said that while the United States had every wish to see the Greek Army’s campaign against the guerrillas completed in 1949 he did not feel that Greek failure to achieve this would be because of lack of equipment. Mr. Acheson is also believed to have said that Congress was not enthusiastic about increasing overseas military appropriations now. Defence chiefs are understood to have taken the stand that the Greeks could not expect their deficiencies in the field to be removed by any increased supplies from the United States.