DAILY SUMMARY - 1946/11/25

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Daily Summary Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06749319
• Document Creation Date: September 11, 2018

Approved for Release: 2018/09/05 C06749319 APPROVED FOR RELEASE - Historical Programs Staff 30 August 2018 38 GENERAL 25 ti1011 1946 238 , 1. Rumania does not want Danube vessels now--US Delegate ACC Bucharest has been informed by the Rumanian Armistice Commission that it does not desire restitution of Rumania's Danubian vessels at this time because (a) no tugboats are available for returning the ships, and (b) the season is too advanced to make restitution advisable before spring. Officials of " the Commission confided privately to the Delegation that the "real reason" for their not desiring the vessels now is the certainty that Soviet occupa- tion forces "will imniediately take them over." 2. US view on Antarctic claims--The State Department has instructed US Embassy Santiago that the US has neither asserted territorial claims in the Antarctic nor recognized claims of other countries. 3.� US policy toward Iran--Acheson has authorized Embassy Tehran to in- form Iranian officials that the US is prepared (a) to support Iran not only by words but also by appropriate acts, .and (b) to consider sympathetically requests for the sale of "reasonable quantities of non-aggression military material" to assist Iran in maintaining internal order.' The US also hopes to be able to intensify Its informational and cultural program and to main- tain its Military Missions in Iran, if Iran so desires; the State Department will support before Congress legislation permitting the continuance of these Missions beyond the national emergency period. The Embassy is Instructed to emphasize that US assistance to Iran is based o�he assump- tion that the Government is working in the true 'interests of the Iranian people and will endeavor to preserve Iranian sovereignty and independence. EUROPE 4. USSR: Reluctance to loin international organizations--US Embassy Mos- � cow believes that the principal reason for the USSR' i failure to join such International organizations as the International Bank, rro and the PICA() � is the Kremlin's desire to preserve its independence of action in world affairs. The Embassy discounts reports, attributed to Soviet officials, that lack of trained personnel is a major factor and points out Moscow's readiness to participate wherever definite advantages to the USSR are in- volved. By neither joining nor definitely refusing to join an international THE C.I.A. HAS NO OBJECTION TO THE DECLASSIFICATION OF THIS DOCUMENT. '2 0 MAR 1978' NO � Approved for Release: 2018/09/05 C06749319 Approved for Release: 2018/09/05 C06749319 APPROVED FOR RELEASE - Historical Programs Staff 30 August 2018 organization and by holding out hope that it might join if changes were made, the Kremlin achieves a bargaining position from which to undermine the organization. Ban on US radio correspondents believed final�Ambassador Smith believes that the Soviet denial of radio facilities to US correspond- ents is based on a top-level decision and that further representations would be futile. The Ambassador believes that the real reasons for the ban probably include a desire to avoid encroachments on censorship through broadcasters' intonations and an intention to keep Radio Moscow the "pristine oracle of the faithful" for both domestic and foreign audi- ences. 5. RUMANIA: Modification of US attitude recommended--US Representative Berry, commenting on the Groza Government's "utter disregard for prom- ises given and for elementary decency" in the 19 November elections, re- commends that the US modify its attitude toward the Rumanian Govern- ment. Be proposes that the US (a) officially inform the Rumanian Govern- ment that the elections were not "free and unfettered"; (b) continue "normal business" with the 'Government; (c) initiate tri-partite discussion of the Rumanian question "as early as possible on the same level that pro- duced the Moscow decision"; and (d) refrain from giving official advice to King Michael, since the US "is in no position to back such advice with other than moral support." NEAR EAST-AFRICA 6. IRAN: Qavam will appeal to SC any Azerbaijan resistance�Allen reports that Qavam is determined to send security forces into Azerbaijan in con- nection with forthcoming elections. If Azerbaijan authorities resist, Qavam will appeal to the Security Council for assistance. Allen empresses the hope that the Department will support Iran's case strongly, if it is presented. 7. GREECE: Bandits assume "Republican Army status--MacVeagh re- ports that the transformation of bandit forces in northern Greece into a self-declared "Republican Army" may have considerable propaganda importance. lAr Approved for Release: 2018/09/05 C06749319 Approved for Release: 2018/09/05 C06749319 APPROVED FOR RELEASE - Historical Programs Staff 30 August 2018 US Military Attache Athens comments that the Communist ob- jective is either to proclaim an autonomous Macedonia or to gain world- wide support in presenting left-wing bandits as "soldiers of democracy." Lge bandit force r --MacVeagh also reports the bandit force in e -Tengagementarriaajrlidar Valley area), according to British observer estimates, was in excess of 2,000. The engagement has been broken off and the bandits have apparently withdrawn into Yugo- slavia for regrouping. 8. INDIA: British pessimistic over political developments--US Embassy London reports that tfie India Office is very pessimlstic as a result of Indian political developments. It fears that the coalition government may be breaking down and that the constitutional project may collapse. FAR EAST 9. CHINA: Communists reported la broad su rt--US Military Attache Nanking reports that, accor.: a ana Ian official with long experience in Ronan, only the 'hate nots" in the province favor the Com- munist regime; it is disliked by all the "haves," including the least pros- perous farmers and merchants. The MA believes this to be "generally true" of all Communist areas and that even a "slight measure of govern- ment reform, particularly on agrarian lines, would cut much ground from under the feet of the Communists." THE AMERICAS 10. CHILE: Government may act in Braden strike--Bowers considers that the ChU.ei-lbovernment, in view of the company's "definitive refusal" to submit the two-months old Braden strike to arbitration, may take "drastic action." He believes that the arbitration proceedings, if at- tempted, would probably have upheld the company's point of\ view. - 3 - Approved for Release: 2018/09/05 C06749319