Cimon Diamantopoulos

Cimon Diamantopoulos also Kimon Diamantopoulos ( Greek Κίμων Διαμαντόπουλος Kímon Diamandópoulos ; * 1886 in Athens ; † December 6, 1946 in New York City ) was a Greek diplomat.

Live and act

Diamantopoulos studied at the University of Athens and received a doctorate in law from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . In 1910 he joined the foreign service. In 1924 he became consul general in Istanbul . In 1926 he headed the Greek delegation in the joint committee for the exchange of the Greek and Turkish population . In 1930 he headed public relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens . From August 21 to December 12, 1924 he was chargé d'affaires at the Greek Embassy in Washington, DC , and from 1932 to 1935 Greek envoy in Durres (Albania). From 1935 to 1939 he was the Greek envoy in Sofia (Bulgaria). On February 7, 1940 he was appointed Ambassador of Greece to Washington, DC , where he was accredited on February 13, 1940. From July 13, 1940 to April 6, 1941 he was ambassador to Moscow and participant of the Greek, English, Turkish and Serbian coffee clubs at Richard Stafford Cripps . With the beginning of the occupation of Greece by the Wehrmacht , he was expelled by the Soviet authorities. From October 6, 1942 he represented the Greek government in exile of Emmanouil Tsouderos , based in London in Washington, DC. In 1943 he represented the Greek government in exile at the United Nations Conference on Food and Agriculture in Hot Springs. In 1944 he represented the Greek government in exile at the United Nations Conference on Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation in Montreal. In 1944 he represented the Greek government-in-exile at the International Labor Conference in Philadelphia.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituaries on File, p. 156
2. ↑ On July 13, 1940, Christos Diamantopoulos, the new Greek Minister in Moscow, presented his credentials. Diamantopoulos replaced Spyridon Marchettis, who had served as Greek Minister in the USSR since May 5, 1938. On January 7, 1941, the Greek Minister in Moscow, Christos Diamantopoulos, cabled he was convinced the USSR would remain neutral in case of a German attack against Greece. Gabriel Gorodetsky, Stafford Cripps' Mission to Moscow, 1940-42, p. 42
3. ^ Office of the Chief of Protocol , Diplomatic Representation for Hellenic Republic, [1]
4. ^ Office of the Historian , Washington, October 30, 1946, [2] , Frank Daley Greece, Gallant, Glorious 1941 p. 11 Who's who: Delegates to the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, 1945, United Nations Information Office , 1945 - 106 p. 48

predecessor	Office	successor
Alexandros Kontoulis	Greek ambassador to Albania from 1932 to 1935	Denis Carayannis
Alexander Naoum, 1857-1936	Greek Ambassador to Bulgaria from 1935 to 1939	Panagiotis pipinelis
Spyridon Marchettis	Greek Ambassador to Moscow July 13, 1940 to April 6, 1941	Panagiotis pipinelis
Demetrios Sicilianos	Ambassador of Greece to the United States February 13, 1940 to June 1946	Pavlos Oikonomou Gouras