DAILY SUMMARY - 1946/09/30

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Daily Summary Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02036423
• Document Creation Date: September 11, 2018

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1. B rnes recommends slowt down UNRRA shi ments to Yugoslavia--
ecre ry yrnes eves ta ar re ew y UNRRA would show that
Yugoslavia no longer needs UNRRA aid. Byrnes requests that the US do
everything consistent with its obligations to slow down UNRRA ship-
ments to Yugoslavia.
2. B nes requests World Bank defer consideration of Poliski_oan--Secre-
tary Byrnes, having noted press reports that Poland is seeking a
$600,000,000 loan from the World Bank, asks the State Department to
make certain that this application is not considered until his returm.
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3. POLAND: Illikolajczyk expects his Party to be excluded from election--
Mikolajczyk has told US Ambassador Lane that under the new electoral
law the Government can and probably will eliminate his Peasant Party
from active participation in the election. Although many Peasant Party
leaders have advocated boycotting the election, Mikolajczyk fears that
such action would increase underground violence, lead to civil war and
result in Soviet occupation of the country.
4. GREECE: vC� 1's leadershilities discounted�US Ambassador
MacVeagh expresses a pessimistic view of the return of King George
whom he characterizes as still being "an indecisive personality with
utter incapacity for leadership." MaeVeagh believes that unless the
Wing receives stronger guidance than is now apparent, his presence
may precipitate "even worse internal and external developments" than
any which occurred in his absence.
5. BELGIUM: Estrkzepatriable DPs to be em lo ed as miners--General
McNarney is planning to permit the Belgian Government to recruit for.
coal mining at least 20,000 non-repatriable displaced persons now in
the US zone of Germany.
6. GERMANY: QuadriartIte
reports that the Coordinating Committee of the ACC has approved quadri-
partite inspection of liquidation of German industrial war potential by
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zone commanders. Murphy hopes that the plan may accomplish "approxi-
mately what the disarmament commission was intended to do."
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7. CHINA: Marshall asks halt in US military supplies�According to Com-
manding General Nanking Headquarters Command, denerai Marshall
desires that all action regarding the supply of ammunition and military
equipment to the Chinese Government be deferred until further notice
from him.
8. SIAM: French proposals for settlement of territorial dis.ute--Caffery
reports a e renc pro �e am agrees � imme. ate retro-
cession of the disputed territories, now propose to submit the Siamese
grievances, particularly the frontier question, to an international com-
mission in accordance with the general arbitration act of 1928.
'tor 9. JAPAN: Repatriation of Formosans�In view of the black market activi-
ties of Formosans in Japan reported by Atcheson (see Daily Summary of
16 September, item 10), the US Embassy in Nanking has been instructed
to discuss with the Chinese Government the repatriation of all Formosans
from Japan except those who can prove a legitimate means of livelihood.
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