DAILY SUMMARY - 1946/06/15

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Daily Summary Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02578605
• Document Creation Date: September 11, 2018

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GENERA
1. Further rumors pointed toward Trieste�US Naval Attache Belgrade
reports an "unconfirmed rumor" of an imminent attack on Trieste,
probably on the night of 15 June. Re and the Military Attache consider
such an attack "very unlikely."
General Schuyler, ACC Rumania, transmits an unconfirmed
Rumanian report that Soviet air strength in Rumania has recently been
increased to 6500-7000 aircraft and that Soviets have asked for com-
plete information on 71 airfields in addition to the 26 currently used
by them. (As of 7 June, 760 Soviet aircraft were estimated to be in
Rumania.)
2. Soviet and Austrian maneuvering for position on eve of CFM meeting--
According to Erhardt, both the Soviets and Austrians have "intensi-
fied" their "respective activities" on the eve of the CFM meeting in
the hope of producing a status quo favoring their "respective interests."
Re adds (a) that this activity mainly revolves around the treatment to
be accorded German foreign assets; and (b) that the Austrians are con-
vinced that their independence hinges on the "interpretation and execu-
tion" of the Potsdam Agreement.
EUROPE -AFRICA
3. POLAND: Anti-Government feeling reported stronger--Carciinal
Sapieha, Catholic leader in Krakow, has told Ambassador Lane that
(a) he believes that recent political arrests have increased popular
feeling against the Government; (b) he is apprehensive that the NSZ
underground groups will take "ill-considered" action against the
Government; and (c) he is strongly counselling "prudence," since
the Soviet Army would use the "greatest severity" in suppressing an
"attempted insurrection."
Elections unlikely this year- Mikolajczyk has told Lane that
(a) the referendum law has been changed to permit greater control by
the leftist parties in the Government; (b) the Government will consider
the referendum an endorsement of its policies and elections will there-
fore not be held this year; and (c) despite 9oviet willingness to be con-
ciliatory to Mikolajczyk; the Government may still dissolve his Peasant
Party, with "disastrous civil war as the certain result. In reply to
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Lane's question as to how the US could help the situation, Mikolajczyk
said that the US "should make public the facts."
"Events" expected before 1 July--Lane reports that British Am-
bassador Bentinck postponed his vacation at the request of Mikolajczyk,
who said that "events" were expected at the end of June. (Mikolajczyk's
Peasant ?arty opposes the Government's proposal for a unicameral
legislature in the referendum scheduled for 30 June.)
4, GERMANY: Press campaign on Saxony referendum--Murphy reports
that the dominant theme in the Soviet-controlled press is the 30 June
referendum in Saxony on the nationalization of industrial plants for-
merly owned by "war criminals or active Nazis." Political parties
and trade unions are holding mass meetings and taking every opportunity
to stress the urgency of an affirmative vote. However, "public uncer-
tainty" over the measure and determined efforts by Christian Democra-
tic Union leaders have caused the Communists to moderate their demands,
and it now appears that 500-1,500 plants, rather than 5,000, will be. af-
fected.
Pieck, Communist leader, has told Murphy that similar referenda
will not be held in other provinces where "disposition" of the concerns
will be effected by "administrative decree." Murphy concludes that
the Communists view the Saxony vote "mainly as good propaganda" to
show that they can use a "thoroughly democratic method.'
5. SWEDEN: US does not object to visit by Argentine military�The State
Department is informing the Swedish military that it "does not suggest"
withholding visas for the nine Argentine military personnel who wish
to inspect the Bofors factory (see Daily Summary of 13 June, item 13).
FAR EAST
6. SIAM: UTC views on border dispute--Embassy London reports the
official British view that (a) the US and U7 representatives in Bangkok
should jointly urge the Siamese to retrocede immediately the territories
seized from Indochina; and (b) the French should not be approached until
this joint action has been taken. The British are advising the Siamese
that they should not press for immediate consideration of their applica-
tion for UN membership.
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