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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A005800040030-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: November 4, 1946
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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1. US to withdraw Mission from Albania--The State Department has in-
structed Acting US Representative Henderson to inform Premier Hoxha
that the US will withdraw its Mission from Tirana immediately.. The
note is to state that, since the Mission has been unable to bring about
mutual understanding or to establish diplomatic relations between the
two countries, there is no further reason for it to remain in Albania,
2. Molotov to clarify Soviet atomic position in UN speech--The Soviet ex-
pert on the Comic-nergy Commission has informed a US representa-
tive that Molotov will make a speech before the Assembly clarifying the
Soviet position on international control of atomic energy.
3.. Soviet view on unification of China--US Embassy Moscow reports that
Minister of Foreign Affairs Malik recently told the British Ambassador
that the USSR desires a unified China, and he agreed that Chiang Kai-shek
and the Kuomintang are the only forces now in China able to unite the
couhtry. Malik "hastened to add" that basic democratic reforms and
elimination of the CC clique would be necessary preliminaries to unifica-
tion.
4. Some Yugoslav students to remain in Czechoslovakia--US Military Attache
Prague reports that the Yugoslav Embassy in Prague has "unexpectedly"
returned passports to all Yugoslav students in Czechoslovakia except
"known reactionaries "F I
EUROPE
5. CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Benes re rted seriousl ill--US Military Attache
Prague reports that, President Benes
is seriously ill and that a second attack would prove fatal
6. USSR: Soviet propaganda supports Arabs--US Charge Durbrow reports
from Moscow several Indications, highlighted by a recent editorial in
PRAVDA, that the USSR is adopting an openly pro-Arab and anti-Zionist
policy.
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Reclassification results in ration reductions--According to US
Military cfie- Moscow, many Soviet citizens, ormerly classified as
workers, have been downgraded to clerks, thus suffering substantial
loss in rations. Dependents between 17 and 55 and domestics in private
employ are now allowed no bread ration cards, while bread and flour
have ceased to be available in commercial stores (where ration cards
are not required). The MA believes these measures are designed to
permit re-establishment of food reserves and to force additional labor
into industry.
7. BULGARIA: Opposition Party members arrested--According to US Rep-
resentative Barnes, Social Democratic Party chief Lulchev and 22 other
Party members have been arrested for having circulated a "spurious"
speech credited to Secretary Byrnes. Barnes believes that Lulchev
(who has been .released on bail) had no connection with distributing "such
a stupid and unconvincing fabrication," but that his arrest may be the
first post-election use by the Communists of the new "law for the defense
of the peoples" authority to liquidate Opposition representation in the
National Assembly."
8. ITALY: Allied forces to remain in Trieste--Secretary Byrnes has in- .
formed US Political Advisor Caserta that the US and UK intend to main-
tain forces in the Free Territory of Trieste after the ratification of the
Italian peace treaty and until the new Trieste administration is able to
maintain internal security and guard its frontiers.
9. FRANCE: Probable composition of the new overnment--Monick, Gov-
ernor of the Bank of France, has told US Embassy Paris he believes the
new government, in addition to the three parties now represented, will in-
clude other political groups which would be "driven into cooperation by
joint fear of a "de Gaulle dictatorship." Monick also considers MRP
statements about excluding Communists from the neat Cabinet "largely
campaign window dressing."
10. GERMANY: Labor removals attributed to SED failure--Murphy reports
that the German head of the Soviet Zonal Administration for Industry. be-
lieves the recent di mantlings and deportations
were decided upon only when came e n
plans to dominate the Soviet Zone through the SED had failed, While this
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official does not think Soviet authorities have plans for further deporta-
tions at present, he believes "Moscow probably would continue on this
line unless Allied action prevented it."
NEAR EAST-AFRICA
11. IRAN: Consideration of new US credit recommended--Allen recommends
"sympathetic considers to-t ) the 8 o an anian request for a
$10,000,000 credit for purchase of military supplies. Allen, and Generals
Grow and Schwarzkopf, are agreed that the US Military Missions to Iran
cannot succeed if means are not found to replenish the almost exhausted
non-combat supplies. Allen adds that the USSR is eager to furnish all
sorts of supplies, including combat material, and that General Grow be-
lieves the Iranians may turn to the "USSR in desperation if their army
runs out of trucks, shoes, uniforms and blankets. '
FAR EAST
12. CHINA: Chinese delaying Sinkiang negotiations- -Embassy Nanking re-
ports that the Chinese Government is o viously using delaying tactics"
in negotiations with the Soviet Consul General in Sinkiang over Soviet
concessions in that province. The Chinese Government has notified the
Soviet Consul General that it agrees in principle to joint exploitation of
Sinkiang's tin and wolfram mines, provided they remain under Chinese
management.
THE AMERICAS
13. PANAMA: US proposed statement held "not satisfact --Hines re-
ports that the join statement on defense sites proposed by the State De-
partment Is not satisfactory to Panama. He suggests careful review of
Panama's proposal for a statement based on 90-day renewable joint US-
Panamanian control pending negotiation of a new agreement.
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