DAILY SUMMARY - 1946/11/16

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• Collection: Daily Summary Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02931562
• Document Creation Date: September 11, 2018

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Soviet tracIpt3, move westwa t. I � ��8 � ilitary Attache
3.3(h)(2) Warsaw has learnec of "large scale"
:movements of Soviet troops and equipment through Poland into Ger-
many during the past three weeks.. Such slogans as "Death to the
Anglo-Saxons" and "We destroyed Germany; we shall now destroy
ngland and America" have been observed on tanks, and railway cars.
*rhe troops enthusiastically refer to the "new front" in Germany.
2. 'French representative calls US.trua.Ate_s_htirm2sal imperialism--
According to Austin, Nagglar, a French Representative to the UN, has
eafied the US proposal for strategic trusteeship of the Japanese man-
dated islands "straight imperialism" and said that the proposal would
certainly be questioned by the USSR and probably by several other
delegations.
Nor,
3. p:ritish Foreign Office pleased with Netherlands-Indonesian trea Oa 1.
rj Embassy London reports that an official o Le Br tish oreign Of-
ice commenting on the Netherlands-Indonesian draft treaty (initialed
in Batavia on 15 November), while divulging no detailstsaid that the
;o.rms were "surprisingly satisfactory," particularly in that,while the
Indonesian Republic is to be.virtually independent, the Indonesians have
.greed to respect Dutch rights and to receive Dutch advisers.
EUROPE
FRANCE: MRP MiniEter expects four-party Government--
According to Caffery, Andre Colin, MRP Minister of State, considers
the premiership will probably have to be offered to the Commu-
rists as the largest party, but believes that Thorez cannot successfully
form a Government. He asserts that the MRP would insist, as a con-
dition to participation, that the present "sovietization" of France by
the Minister of Industrial Production must cease,. He anticipates that,
rft-ir Thorez' failure, the MRP would form a Cabinet including Commu-
ists Socialists, and Radical Socialists,
Colin accuses de Gaulle of furthering the creation of two irrec-
oncilable blocs in France and says that the MRP would not "automatically
-4.ittow" de Gaulle in an mai-Marxist crusade�
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NEAR EAST-AFRICA
5. IRAN: US ages to furnish military material--Acheson has informed
US Embassy Tehran that the State Department tentatively agrees to
furnish to Iran,on request, reasonable amounts of "non-aggression
military material" for the purpose of maintaining internal security.
Combat items are not to exceed 10 million dollars in value.
FAR EAST
6 , CHINA: Chinese not planni to take Dairen�Assistant US Military
Attache Mukden reports a statement y neral Tu LI-ruing, Chinese
Commander in Chief in the Northeast, to the effect that the Chinese
Army is not planning to take Dairen. General Tu added "as an aside"
that the Chinese Army would probably not see Dairen "until the next
war."
THE AMERICAS
7. COLOMBIA: Continued .t.a.tion anticipated despite strike settlement--
Wiley reports that the petroleum workers strike has been settled on
terms manifestly unfavorable to Tropical. President Ospina, who had
feared an imminent revolutionary disturbance (see Daily Summary of
14 November, item 11) is greatly relieved. Wiley, however, anticipates
further agitation, citing (a) evidence that the head of the petroleum
-workers' union has appealed to "all labor" to demand nationalization
of the petroleum industry; and (b) indications that the union has received
foreign financial support and inspiration.
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