BRITISH-GREEK CORPORATION

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24895, 7 June 1946, Page 7

BRITISH-GREEK CORPORATION

COMPLIANCE WITH U.S. WISH REPORTED

TRADE MONOPOLY PLAN SAID TO BE DROPPED

(Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 5. The Washington correspondent of the “New York Herald-Tribune” says: “The British Government is understood to be abandoning its project for forming a corporation which would have had monopolistic control over the Greek economy. “A United States State Department spokesman said the United States would discuss the plan at conferences with the British and the Greeks in Athens and London. Britain was well aware of the American opposition to trade monopolies. The spokesman expected a satisfactory result would be achieved on receipt of more detailed information.

“It was learned that the more detailed information would be that Britain had withdrawn the original draft of a charter for an exclusive BritishGreek corporation, substituting a charter without monopolistic features. “The United States has agreed to a Greek Government request to send a mission to Greece on June 15 to assist in the revision of the voting lists in preparation for the plebiscite on September 1 on the return of King George of the Hellenes.”