DAILY SUMMARY - 1946/10/30

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Daily Summary Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02931552
• Document Creation Date: September 11, 2018

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1 No recent Soviet-Chinese , ,:otiations on Manchurian assets�Chinese
ore ,14,ice ve orme say )1, "no
authoritative discussions regarding Soviet-Manchurian trade" have
occurred since the Chinese capital moved to Nanking, and that TS.
Soong must have been thinking of inconclusive discussions that took
place last March when he indicated to the Embassy that the USSR was
negotiating with China regarding "war booty" not yet removed from
Manchuria (see Daily Summary of 8 October, item 3).
2 Withdrawal of Soviet railroad officials from Mukden--Embassy Nanking
reports a feeling suppres nervousness in the Chinese Foreign
Office over the implications of the present withdrawal of Soviet rail-
road officials from bfukden, which the Foreign Office "rightly" regards
as a significant Soviet gesture of dissatisfaction. (On 20 October the
Embassy reported that the Chinese Foreign Minister, in an interview
with the Soviet Ambassador, had expressed the hope that no withdrawal
would take place, "in view of the desirability of China and the USSR
working out their Joint problems satisfactorily.")
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3. USSR: MA views Stalin interview as tactical maneuver�US Military At-
tache Moscow interprets Stalies replies to the questions submitted by
the United Press as a tactical maneuver designed to weaken hostile opin-
ion in the US and soften opposition in the UN. The MA believes the ICrem-
lin has been slow to recognize the extent of popular US reaction against
Soviet policies and propaganda, but now is becoming alarmed over the
effect of public opinion in sustaining US military preparedness and sup-
porting a firm anti-Soviet policy.
4. BULGARIA: Electiop results--According to US Representative Barnes
In Sofia, the tentative returns from the 27 October elections (Communist
2.265 405, other Fatherland Front parties 718,851 and Opposition group!
1.231.637) definitely establish the "fact of a strong, healthy opposition'
and "dispel the myth of the so-called Fatherland Front Government,"
which should now be considered as a Communist Government. Barnes be-
lieves that the Communists received 1.000,000 votes from those who
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traditionally vote for the party in power and another 500,000 as a result
of fraud and intimidation. Barnes, therefore, estimates that the Commu-
nists actually number approximately 800,000.
5. FRANCE: Possible effect of economic crisis--Caffery reports that the
current grave financial, economic, and food crisis has so depressed
French morale that it is now probably lower than at any time since the
liberation. Caffery adds that, as a result, "some thinking Frenchmen of
different political views" are beginning to feel that "for the present,"
because democracy has apparently not produced results, some form of
"authoritarian government" is needed, possibly either a dictatorship by
the Communist party or an authoritarian regime under de Gaulle.
Callen( feels that most Frenchmen, if forced to choose between the two,
would unquestionably" pick de Gaulle.
Views of on post-electiokRovernment�Caffery reports
evidence that, despite the recent anti-Communist line of the MRP, Bidault
believes it would be "difficult, if not impossible," to exclude the Commu-
nists from the Government after the 10 Novembr elections. Caffery adds
that Bidault, because of the great unpopularity of the present "tripartite"
regime, is "toying with the idea" of proposing a "quadripartite" govern-
ment to include the Radical-Socialists,
6. SPAIN: Monarchists and Leftists negotiating--A high British Foreign
Office representative has told Gallman that the Spanish pretender Don
Juan and "all" representatives of the CNT (suppressed anarcho-
syndicalist labor organization) and of other leftist groups within Spain
have agreed in Lisbon on a program for a post-Franco Spain. They have
not, however, ascertained the attitude of Spanish Army leaders. The Brit-
ish official declared that "nothing may come of this move" but described
the apparent rapprochement as "encouraging."
7. POLAND: plans _Catholic Church--US Military At-
tache Warsaw reports that, according to a �Isuaiiy reliable" resistance
movement intelligence officer, the Polish Communist Politburo decided at
a recent meeting to wait until after the elections before starting a vigorous
campaign against the Catholic Church. Measures contemplated against
the Church include "parcelling" and taxation of Church properties, a ban
on political statements from the pulpit, taxation of Church offerings and
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divorce of the Church from all schools. The MA believes that armed
conflict could result from such a program against the Church.
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8. CHINA: ill_litami_irives threaten eace negotiations- -US Military At-
tache Nanking reporth that the accelerated tempo" of both Communist
and Nationalist military activity casts an ."ominous shadow" over the ,
peace negotiations in Nanking which currently are in the "hard bargain-
ing" stage.
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