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65-3_07 - 1949-04-06

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April 6, 1949

MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION With Ambassador Griffis

During the course of Ambassador Griffis's call today he informed me as follows:

First, he had submitted to the President his resignation as Ambassador of Egypt;

Second, that for some months he would continue to perform his United Nations duties in connection with the Arab refugee problem in Palestine;

Third, he had informed the President that, as much as he appreciated the importance of the Argentine post, he had regretfully come to the conclusion that he could not accept it. He said that he had performed two difficult and trying assignments - one in Poland and one in Egypt, and he felt that after the Palestine refugee problem was over he would retire to private life. He said that he would have gone either to London or Paris because of his great interest in those posts; that, while he was disappointed, he had no feeling of annoyance or bitterness about it.

I presented again the considerations which made us believe that the Argentine post was one of the most important that we had and that he was ideally equipped to discharge it. However, this had no effect upon his decision.

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