4. Greece is already under great pressure from Germany to abrogate her War Trade Agreement with Britain. This agreement has at present the effect of restricting Greek exports, particularly of olive oil, chrome and sundry other products, to Germany. 5. Occupation of Salonika by Italy would close our trade route to and from Yugoslavia. We have large dumps of important minerals, such as chrome and copper, at Salonika awaiting shipment. Our metals protocol with Yugoslavia prevents Germany obtaining the full surplus so long as we are able to take supplies from Salonika.
- Collection ID
- CAB81
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Albania Bulgaria Crete Egypt France Germany Great Britain Greece Italy Libya Romania Russia Sardinia Sicily Somaliland Turkey Yugoslavia
- Document Reference
- CAB 81/98/57
- Document Types
- Memorandum
- File Reference
- CAB 81/98
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab81.0098.057
- Keywords
- Foreign Policy Strategy Political Intelligence Economic Intelligence Invasion Of Greece Italian Armed Forces Military Strength Greek Armed Forces
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
- Pages
- 5
- Persons Discussed
- Victor Cavendish-Bentinck John Godfrey
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- International Relations
