DAILY SUMMARY - 1946/07/26

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• Document Creation Date: September 11, 2018

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ewish A enc ojisses US-UT sian for Palestine�The US delegation
to the London talks on ale:Aim has rem' Ora the Jewish Agency
an "at least send-official" letter stating that the Agency cannot par-
ticipate in any further consultations on the immigration of 100,000 Jews
into Palestine. The Agency contends that the immigration should be
carried out without awaiting solution of the general Jewish problem and
that both President Truman and the State Department have supported
that view. The letter further states that the main US-UN proposal (see
Daily Summary of 25 July, item 1) appears wholly unacceptable from the
Jewish point of view.
2. Arab Le e attitude threatens US air r hts in E -The Director
General anese Ministry. �reign Ire has told the US
civil air attache in Cairo that the recent Arab League air conference
secretly resolved that "no Arab government having a national airline
will grant fifth freedom rights within Arab countries to any foreign trunk
line." The Lebanese Minister expressed the belief, which he said had
been confirmed by Egypt's delegate to the conference, that in view of
this resolution the Egyptian Parliament would not ratify the Payne Field
agreement with the U. (The US is preparing to turn the field over to the
Egyptians on the assumption that the agreement will be ratified.)
The State Department feels that in spite of this report the US must
fulfil its obligation to the Egyptian Government to turn over Payne Field
as rapidly as possible.
3. Anzio-Soviet trade agreement--A British Foreign Office official has told
Harriman in strict confidence that Anglo-Soviet trade conversations have
been successfully concluded. Both the Foreign Office and the Government
are pleased with the terms, which include a compromise settlement of
past disputes and the exchange of Soviet forest products for Empire rubber.
The British are not to grant any "extensive" future credits.
EUROPE-AFRICA
4. ITALY: Leftist attitude on eace trea -Embassy Rome believes that,
although tan ea ers are nearly as disappointed as the right
at the CFM decisions, neither the Communists nor the Socialists would
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refuse to participate in any government signing a peace treaty similar
to the present draft.
5. ALBANIA: Troop movements near Greek border�US Political Repre-
sentative Jacobs in rani r�rts new1ioop movements southward,
near the Greek border. Jacobs attributes the movements to the recent
Greek border incidents (see Daily Summary of 10 July, item 8) and
suggests that they may also be related to recent purges of civil and
military officials and to a possible resurgence of anti-Government
activity.
6 HUNGARY: Sovie_t_s_pLem_den_la_nds--Minister Schoenfeld in Budapest
reported that, following the US protest against the unilateral Soviet de-
mands on the Hungarian Government (see Daily Summary of 12 July, item
2), the Soviet Minister to Hungary instructed the Interior Minister, an
extreme Communist, to speed the dissolution of Hungarian church and
youth organizations. The Interior Minister, without consulting Premier
Nagy, has already issued a decree dissolving "some two or three hundred"
such organizations and has taken "extreme measures" to comply with the
Soviet demand for a purge of Government officials.
7. BULGARIA: British ie n peace tre4y with present regime�Accord-
ing to US Politiedlt-'epr ve B�es in Sofia, his British colleague
and the UK Representative ACC Bulgaria have advised Bevin that (a) if
considerations of "high policy" permit, the UF should refuse to sign a
peace treaty with the present Bulgarian Government or to take any action
which could be interpreted as "whitewashing" the regime, and (b) if a
peace treaty is necessary, the UM should announce that it still condemns
the present situation in Bulgaria, "but has bowed to the superior require-
ments of the moment for a formal peace."
8. GERMANY: Soviet proposal on reparations plants�Murphy reports a
Soviet proposarfor a better system of listing and safeguarding "repara-
tions" plants in Germany on the ground that equipment was missing or
stolen from US and UT Zone plants allocated to the USSR. In denying this
allegation, Clay offered to provide an inventory of US Zone "reparations"
plants if the Soviets would do the same.
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