DAILY SUMMARY - 1946/10/09

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• Document Creation Date: September 11, 2018

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GENERAL
9 OCT 1946
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1. _Soviets cancel Allied flights iiLEasterso --US Delegation ACC
Budapest reports that the Soviet Ground Command has cancelled all
Allied flights over Hungary, Rumania and Czechoslovakia from 9 through
14 October inclusive. The Delegation believes that the restriction is
connected with the redeployment of Soviet troops upon termination of
maneuvers in Western Hungary.
2. EA and Denmark--According to Embassy Lon-
don, the British Foreign Office official charged with Scandinavian mat-
ters has characterized as "top-level British policy" a program to draw
both Norway and Denmark into an "Atlantic Community (not a western
bloc)." He added that naval and military circles in both nations support-
ed the program, but political authorities were holding back "obviously
with the USSR in mind."
3. Soviet dele tes to General Assembl --Embassy Moscow has been in-
forme a e vie e egat on to the General Assembly will include
Molotov, Vyshinski, Gromyko, and Novikov.
EUROPE
4. YUGOSLAVIA: Withdrawal of Soviet Military Mission--US Military At-
tache Belgrade reports that the Soviet Military Mission departed Belgrade
on 5 October. The MA speculates that (a) the Mission's presence was
embarrassing to Tito, (b) the Soviets consider the Tito regime to be
"trustworthy on its own, or (c) the USSR wants to avoid any official
connection with a campaign being planned by Tito against Trieste or
Greece.
Troop concentrations in south--US Naval Attache Belgrade re-
ports from personal observation that there are about 75,000 Yugoslav
troops in southern Yugoslavia. He observed about 60 heavy Soviet tanks
at Skoplje and states that during the past month four trains daily have
carried troops and materiel to the area. (US MA Athens previously had
estimated the figure to be 60-70,000; see Daily Summary of 19 September,
item 2 ,)
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5. GREECE: Proposal to Arm civilians for useainm_imatmi s--
Embassy London has been informed by the UK Foreign Office that the
Greek Government has made a second request to Britain for its views
on a Greek plan to arm and mobilize civilians in sections of Greece
where Communist bands are most active. The Greeks contend that
their regular army is too small and too poorly trained and equipped to
permit stationing detachments throughout Greece to deal with hostile
band.s. The Foreign Office believes that the Greeks have made this ap-
P roach because of their concern aver foreign reaction to the plan and
because they lack sufficient arms to carry it out
6. RUMANIA: Elections reported delayed untilyeace is signed--US Dele-
gation ACC Bucharest has been reliably informed that Foreign Minister
Tatarescu has "for the present" persuaded the Communists that elec-
tions should not be held until after the Peace Treaty is signed (see
Daily Summary of 1 October, item 3).
7. BULGARIA: Recognition of Government--US Embassy London reports
that there is "strong feeling"- in the British Foreign Office that the Bul-
garian Government should be formally recognized so that the peace treaty
may be signed.
B. AUSTRIA: Soviets st...g.LtezAg.p.�.:plictilcomaim--IIS Charge Denby
reports that US and UK oil companies in the Soviet zone are now operat-
ing at a "serious loss" as a result of the discriminatory price and wage
policy of the Soviet Mineral 011 Administration, and may be entirely
squeezed out by the USSR. SMOA has also requested complete financial
data which the US companies regard as confidential and have refused to
give.
3.3(h)(2) 9.
NEAR EAST-AFRICA
10. IRAN: Qavam denies progress on Soviet air proposals--Ambassador Allen
reports that Qavam has denied any developments regarding establishment
of an Iranian -Soviet airline monopoly in northern Iran since Iran submit-
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ted a counter-proposal two months ago offering the Soviets a 25 percent
ownership. Allen points out that this information is contrary to re-
ports, which he had previously received from "highly responsible"
sources, that Qavam was about to agree to the original Soviet proposal
of 50 percent Soviet ownership.
Acting Secretary Acheson, in response to Allen's earlier report
on Iran's intentions, has expressed to Allen the State Department's deep
concern over the formation of a Joint Soviet-Iranian airline and adds
that if the Iranian Government cannot resist demands that are likely to
Impair Iranian sovereignty or integrity, the US will have difficulty in
living up to its assurances to Iran.
FAR EAST
11. CHINA: snag activities may hamper US Naval GrouR r am--US
Naval Attache Nanking reports that the British promised last fall to
give China a cruiser, a destroyer, two submarines and several smaller
vessels, in exchange for which the British would like to receive Chinese
commercial shipping rights and "freedom of visit" privileges for the
British Navy. Since Chinese crews for these vessels are receiving
training in the UK, the Attache believes that the US Naval Advisory
Group program will be hampered by "non-uniform methods of training,
maintenance, and operation." The Commander of the US Seventh Fleet
agrees with the Naval Attache and recommends that the US Government
transfer a cruiser to China as soon as the Chinese Navy is ready to take
over a ship of that size.
Trip AMERICAS
12. VENEZUELA: Upris feared--US Military Attache Caracas reports
that Government and Army officials are concerned over the possibility
of armed action by Venezuelan exiles in order to prevent elections for a
National Constituent Assembly on 27 October.
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