DAILY SUMMARY - 1946/03/21

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Daily Summary Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03164650
• Document Creation Date: September 11, 2018

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EUROPE-AFRICA
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1. IRAN:plavalps.mbatr-ks,o,d.jvaptess_impgrta.�Embassy Tehran
reports that Qavamt s position with the Soviets has been made mOre
difficult by (a) a leak to the New York Times that the Soviet Charge
had threatened Qavam in regard to placing Iran's case before the
Security Council and (b) news stories that the State Department had
told the Iranian Government that, if Iran did not place its case before
, the Council, the US would. The Embassy believes that these leaks
are of British origin. Qavam is also disturbed by press reports that
he had instructed Ambassador Ala to appeal to the Security Council.
He had sent these instructions without consulting or inforMing his
Cabinet, and therefore has been embarrassed by having the other
Ministers lenrri nf his r.tirn f
Iraqi
Army contingents are now disposed so as to cover roads and passes
from Iran into northern Iraq. The Iraqi do not expect ty this deploy-
ment to block any aggression but to make certain that such aggression
will involve casualties and thus dramatize the seriousness of the situa-
tion.
2. GERMANY: Viimatasitution�In reply to a War Department proposal
_to stop all shipments of wheat to Germany, General Clay states that,
in order to maintain a 1330 calorie ration, shipments of 46,000 toils
of wheat per month will be needed .until the September harvest� With
such shipments, half the present ration of bread can be continued;
the half ration is considered to be the minimum necessary to avoid
starvation and riots.
3. POLAND: Mikolaiczyk threatened�Ambassador Lane reports that
increasing pressure is being applied to force Mikolajczyk, leader of
the Peasant Party,, to join the Communist-dominated electoral bloc,
General SpyChalski, 'Vice Minister of National Defense and influential
Polish Army leader, told Mikolajczyk that if he persisted in his re-
fusal to join the bloc, he would-"get into serious trouble."
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USSR: INrther lein2,12111=Loamnonneed--The President of the
Supreme Soviet has announced that the next six classes of enlisted
men (those between 26 and 31 years old) in the Soviet ground and
air �:'orces will be demobilized between May and September.
estimates that this demobilization would reduce the Red Army by
about 1,300,000 men from its present estimated strength of (3,400,000).
5. USSR:Com,,iliAtim.,4 Spyie,t. gsvgr,p.nmtsonsistered JuLile- -Charge
Kerman considers that the '..lereath. of life' for the prevailing politi-
cal system of the USSR is the existence, real or imagined, of a hos-
tile international environment. Thus the -defeat of Germany and
Japan lett dominant elements in the USSR with no choice but to build
up the US and Britain as implacable enemies of the Soviet Union.
This attitude has affected the entire Soviet bureaucracy and Govern-
ment. Attempts to reassure Soviet leaders of our peaceful intention
are futile since the Soviets trust no one, not even their own officials.
Kennan feels that. US diplomacy should be adjusted to this situation,
and adds that there could be no more dangerous tendency in American
public opinion than one which demands that our Government accomplish
the impossible by gestures of good will and conciliation toward a .
C,�-overnment incapable of being conciliated. . �
FRANCE: Ssasidi einkasrasses .Bidault--Ambassador Caffery
reports that Foreign Minister Bidault is now greatly perturbed over
the awkward position in which he has placed himself by urging that
the Spanish question be brought before the UNO. Bidault realizes
that the Soviet Ambassador will press him for early action and has
"'pathetically" asked Caffery for suggestions. The French Cabinet
is expected to make a final decision on the matter on 22 March,
FAR EAST
CHINA: Tai, Lises2tesacz.--According to-the Commander of the
Seventh Fleet, recent information appears to confirm reports that
General Tai Li (Chief of the Chinese "secret service") and his
party were lost on 17 IN/larch in the crash of a Chinese plane flying
from Nanking to Tsingtao. Chinese officials are anxious to keep
the news a secret until released by the Generalissimo.
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8. JAPAN: Shipsim available for re atx.n.pz,T,q,pAnese in southern
area--General MacArthur is opposed to granting the British and
Dutch requests that US ships be allocated to them for use in re-
patriating Japanese from Southeast Asia, N.E.I., and Australasia
(See Summary of 15 March, item 0.). He believes that such alloca-
tions are unnecessary, since, beginning in April, there will be avail-
able an excess of Japanese-manned Liberty ships now employed in
repatriating Japanese from the China Theater.
THE AMERICAS
9. ARGENTINA: 71.41:pjlgzini supporters may claim fraud�From a
��generally reliable" source, the FBI has learned that.the Demo-
cratic Union,which supported Tamborini in the recent Argentine
electionaplans to disclose alleged election frauds by Peron'S backers.
The Union claims to have evidence of at least 10,000 cases of fraud
and also evidence that the Ministry of War issued 300,000 false en-
rollment books which were subsequently used by the army, police
and non-citizens. (In Argentina neither the police nor the army is
allowed to vote in Presidential elections.)
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