DAILY SUMMARY - 1946/12/19

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1. Ttt_sts_s_mqt... 'on on on the han --US Ambassador Smith in Moscow
attributes Thos hint to UK Ambassador Peake (that Tito would not
sign the Italian peace treaty unless some concession were made to
Yugoslavia; see Daily Summary of 16 December, item 1) to Tito's
concern over the prestige of his group and the Communist Party,
rather than to Yugoslav nationalism. Smith believes that, as the Krem-
lin has accepted the Trieste agreement, Tito will sign the treaty with-
out any further concessions.
2. UK to test Stalin statement on air service--US Embassy London reports
that the British will attempt to convert their present Helsinki air couri-
er service into a regular civil airline in order to test out the meaning
of Stalin's statement to the press that air services "would not be ex-
cluded under certain conditions."
EUROPE
3. RUMANIA: Broadening of Groza_c_overl--US Delegate
ACC reports an increase of seemingly well-founded' rumors regard-
ing the formation of a more representative Government to include an
political elements. The Delegate is inclined to believe these rumors
because Leftist criticism of the Opposition has been reduced and
Government censorship of the Opposition press has been relaxed to
permit publication of sharp attacks against the Government's fraudu-
lent conduct of the elections.
Government considering request for US loan--A Rumanian
Government official has told US Representative Berry that the Rumanian
Government is "at the end of its rope" and must obtain food imports
before the Peace Treaty is signed (see Daily Summary of 17 December,
item 1). The official asked if it was advisable to make a formal request
for a US corn loan.
4. GREECE: Inadequ?..szsIELatga.A25:22st--US Ambassador MacVeagh
reports that US press reporting from Greece has not been discerning
as to facts or attentive to the real requirements of US national interests.
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5. FRANCE: Reason for a. 'royal of Blum Government�According to
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US Ambassa 'r ery, approva o the um government resulted
from the awareness of political leaders that the weakness of French
democracy, "as now practiced'; would be even more clearly exposed
to the public and that the result might be an attempt at some "extreme"
solution (the Communists or de Gaulle). Celery adds that, while a
breakdown of democracy might not be distasteful either to the Commu-
nists or to certain extreme Rightist elements, each is restrained by
the fear that the other would be the beneficiary of such a breakdown.
Communist demand for Defense Ministr --Caffery has been
informe sour-at--- .ceE�M&Taram that the Communtst
Party, upon orders from Moscow, demanded the Ministry of National
Defense during last week's Cabinet negotiations on grounds that
"democratization" of the Army, Navy and Air Force is not yet com-
pleted and that the Communist position in the armed forces should be
further consolidated.
Communist tactics�Caffery believes that the tactics of the
French Communists thus far indicate that they will continue to attempt
to "colonize" France by gradual stages. Be interprets the "relative
moderation" of the Communists' demands upon Blum, (which could
have been far more sweeping because of Communist power within the
labor movement) as a sign of confidence in their own strength.
NEAR EAST-AFRICA
6, IRAN: COnalDSO of Azerbaijan rests etanc --The Assistant US Military
Attache in Tehran, who has just returned from Tabriz, reports that
at an extraordinary meeting of the Azerbaijan Parliament onliDecem-
ber the members split into two factions as Pishevari and his followers
advocated continuing resistance and Biryia, supported by Governor
David, insisted on immediate compromise.
The session ended when Pishevari resigned and Biryia, as the
new chief of the Democratic Party, announced an agreement with
Tehran. That night, Pishevari and "thousands of Democrats" fled
into th ,R; the Azerbaijan military forces disintegrated/ and a. iarge
mob in seized arms and began killing "Democrats.' Iranian
Army units which entered Tabriz on 13 December joined the civil
population in the search for "Democrats" and killed most of those
whom it arrested.
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The Assistant MA also reports that on the day following the
entry of Iranian forces into Azerbaijan the Soviets sent ten truck-
loads of small arms and ammunition to Tabriz.
FAR EAST
7. CHINA: goypmuniun:trilling to compromise�US Embassy
Nanking comments that "the only possible interpretation now"
of a statement by Chan En-lai reiterating Communist terms for
resuming negotiations and strongly attacking the Generalissimo,
is that the Communists "have not the faintest intention of accept-
ing any compromise solution." The Embassy interprets a reported
increase in Communist military activity in widely separated areas
as an effort to impede a Government offensive anticipated by the
Communists.
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Embassy also reports that, under the eyes of the Generalissimo,
the Steering Committee of the National Assembly vetoed "without
argument" every change, except a technical one, made by the Exami-
nation Committee in the draft Constitution. The Generalissimo is
reported to have informed the Euominiang that it was to suppo_r_t the
Constitution as he had proposed it and "without any nonsense."
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