“Before I left Washington the desk officer in the department said to me, “We regard Salonica as an important listening post, and we get political reports from Salonica that on the whole are more interesting than what we get from the embassy.
“Before I left Washington the desk officer in the department said to me, “We regard Salonica as an important listening post, and we get political reports from Salonica that on the whole are more interesting than what we get from the embassy.