Letter from V. Wellesley to D. Kaklamanos regarding Greece"s unsettled debts to England and France.

COPY. FOREIGN OFFICE. S.W.1. June 17th, 1920. N° 203102/18. Sir, The grants of supplies and stores which have been accorded to Greece by Great Britain and France during the course of 1918, have hitherto not occasioned any acknowledgment on the part of the Greek Government in accordance with the undertaking by that Government to repay the value of the above-mentioned grants. This procedure is not in conformity with that which has be- en followed generally among the Allied Powers all of which wit- hout exception, have given similar undertakings in regard to the grants made to them. In particular, the Serbian Government to men- tion only Balkan States, has agreed to pay, to the British and French Governments, Treasury bonds representing the entire value of the supplies that Government has received. A like method of the payment has, moreover, been adopted for the deliveries which were made to Greece herself in 1919. Article II of Section VII of the agreement signed on Febru- ary 10th.1918, anticipates repayment by Greece to Great Britain and France of the expenses for which she is liable from the fact of the grants anticipated by that agreement. I do not indeed doubt, for a moment, that the Greek Government is in accord with His Majesty's Government and the French Government in recogni- sing that this repayment is justified, as much by the general po- sition of Greece, as by the important increase of territory which Greece is about to realise as a result of the war. Consequently, I have the honour to inform you that the Bri- tish and French Governments are agreed in requesting the Greek Government Monsieur Demetrius Caclamanos etc. etc. etc.