DAILY SUMMARY - 1946/08/14

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01068513
• Document Creation Date: September 11, 2018

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GENERAL
L British comment on Palestine situation--The British Chief Secretary in
Jerusalem has informed the M Consul that illegal immigrants now off
, Palestine ,will be landed and detained vatil quotas are available but that
those reported en route will be removed. The Secretary acknowledged
that such action may bring civil war but ;Med that nothing could be
worse than the "present state of anarchy." He considers that an Arab
attack on the illegal immigrants at Haifa is probable.
The British Foreign Office has told US Charge London that it
expects British measures to stop illegal immigration Into Palestine
but not into the Eastern Mediterranean. The Foreign Office belie-yes
the Jews will continue to foster unlimited immigration, irrespective of
Palestine's ability to absorb the immigrants.
Soviet pressures on Turkey--US Military Attache Moscow believes that
the Soviet demand on Turkey for revision of the Montreux Straits Con-
,
vention is related to such other current Soviet pressures on Turkey as
the support of Bulgarian claims to western Thrace, encouragement of
the Kurdish Independence movement, and efforts to expand Soviet Arme-
nia at Turkish expense.
General Robertson, US Representative ACC Bulgaria, finds no
evidence to support rumors of a possible Soviet-supported offensive
from Bulgaria against Turkey.
Stalin discusses common aims with British Socialists--US Embassy
Moscow has learned that &din, in an interview with a British Labor
Party delegation headed by Laski, frankly indicated the difficulty of
maintaining socialist economic control. He is reported to have said
that the greater part of the economic activity in the USSR was outside
the state framework. Stalin expressed doubt that the transition to
socialism could be achieved without violence and inquired whether
force would not be necessary to drive out foreign capital. The British
took this to mean US capital and felt that Stalin's approach was in part
designed to drive a wedge between the US and the UK by playing on
British anxieties regarding the loan and by stressing the community of
socialist aims between the UK and the USSR.
4. Soviet pilots in Austria take refresher trathing--HeadqOart.ers US
Forces Austria reports that Soviet military pilots in the Vienna area
are soon to leave for 5 months of extensive flight refresher tra1n1n in
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fluflgarr and Poland *to correct the present staLta of rustiness of Soviet
pllots.'' '
� S. British air agreements disregard Bermuda principles--Acheson has
declared in a personal letter to the British Ambassador that the US
"finds difficulty" in reconciling the US-UX Bermuda agreement with
the air agreements recently concluded by the UK with France and Argen-
tina; -especially in respect to limitations on frequency, capacity, and
Fifth Freedom traffic.
EUROPE-AFRICA
IRAN: Soviet troops reported massing on border--US Consulate Tabriz
has forwarded n report that a w�reliableir Eranivam official has seen-!tsev-
eital large concentrations of Red Army' infantry, motorized units and
tank groups" in a 65-mile area along the Soviet side of the Arlates
River, which separates the USSR from tram US Military Attache Tehran
remarks that no confirmation of the report is yet available,
vam to take "firm" stand with Azerbaika.--Qavam has told,
118 Ambassador Al en that he proposes to "be very firm" in his forth-
coming negotiations with Azerbaijan delegates and, if negotiations fail,
might be compelled to employ force to bring Azerbaijan back into the
Iranian flatten. Qavam attributed his previous "overly conciliatory"
� attitude toward Azerbaijan and the Todeh Party to his lack of confidence
In the Iranian Army but added that "he now had that confidence."
British - 41, to Iranian rotest on at Basra--The Foreign
Office has Institut - � sador in Tehran to inform the Iranian
Government that it has taken note of the Iranian protest against move-
ment of British troops to Basra (see Daily Summary of 9 August, item
2) and agrees that the maintenance of order in Southwest Iran "is the
direct responsibility cd the Iranian Gove.rnment."
7 USSR: Zhukov still as Deputy Minister of Armed Forces-414
Military Attache Moscow reports that the name of Marshal Zhukov was
included in a Soviet reply to an official British inquiry for names of the
Deputy.MinisteAtotArmed Forces. The MA comments that this evi-
dence adds Wildiltrifi the theory that Zhukov is still Commander in Chief
of the Red Array and is in Odessa only for nerve warfare (see Daily
Summa37 of ,8 August, Item 3).
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8. RUMANIA: Opposition re-election violence--US Politi-
cal Repre* ve ry a reports pre-election intimi-
dation by the Rumanian Government is clearly entering a "fling stage,"
and physical violence against opposition elements is increasing.
9. INDIA: Prospects for interim government--US Commissioner New
Delhi reports that the Viceroy's !invitation to Nehru to make proposals
for interim government reflected "reliance on Congress' knowledge
that Congress could not form or maintain government without League
cooperation" and belief that "there was fifty-fifty chance Dinah would
accept.". If the League still considers Congress has not responded with
sufficient generosity, the Viceroy will allow Congress to form its own
Ministry and take a chance on 4ts chaosL__
10. INDOCHINA: Possible isolation of Viet Nam--US Consul Saigon reports
that the French High Commissioner apparently will be able to return
from the Dalat Conference to Paris about 18 August with full agreement
on the Indochina Federation by all the states in Indochinatencept Viet
Nam. The Consul believes that unless the French Government resumes
negotiations with Viet Nam at FontaIncbleau and pursues a policy other
than that of "the French in Indochina," Viet Nam may be isolated, and
the return of peace to Indochina seriously jeopardized.
it SIAM: French react to Siemreap incident--Caffery has learned that the
French, on the basis of information reaching Paris, are convinced of
Siamese complicity in the 7 August attack upon the villa-cc of Siemreap
In North Central Cambodia by a mined force of "rebels." French For-
eign Minister Bonnet has been instructed to inform the State Department
that the French request for US good of in the Indochina-Siam bor-
der dispute has been "temporarily' withdrawn. US Naval Attache Bang-
kok, who visited Mammal) on 9 August, reports that the readers in the
raid may have been Siamese but it was "most unlikely that any Siamese
leadership included official backing.'
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THE AMERICAS
12 ARGENTINA: Increasing restrictions on Communists--1Viessersmith
reports that the Peron Administration, in contrast to its earlier
lerdency, is taldng increasingly restrictive measures against activities
of the Communist Party. Messe.rstaith believes it unlikely, however,
that the Party will be outlawed in the near future.
13. CUBA: Wave of blackmail and violence--According to US Ambassador
Norweb, continuing threats of extortion and personal violence and
attempted assassinations are influencing several wealthy businessmen
to leave the country.
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