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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A005800040047-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: November 25, 1946
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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GENERAL
1. Rumania does not want Danube vessels now--US Delegate ACC Bucharest
has been orme by e Rumanian Arm s ice 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 immediate :y take them over."
2. US view on Antarctic claims--The State Department has instructed US
Embassy Santi, , that thF S has neither asserted territorial claims in
the Antarctic nor recognized claims of other countries.
3. US licy toward Iran--Acheson has authorized Embassy Tehran to in-
form Iranian offici s 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 on the 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 s failure to join such
international organizations as the International Bank, ITO and the PICAO
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
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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 corresp9ndents 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 Governments 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. He 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 the forthcoming elections. If Azerbaijan authorities resist,
vam will appeal to the Security Council for assistance. Allen expresses
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.
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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."
La a bandit force rou --MacVeagh also reports the bandit
force in e e ......m n at o a ardor Valley area),
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has been broken off and the bandits have apparently withdrawn into Yugo-
slavia for regrouping.
8. DMIA: British pessimistic over litical develo ments--US Embassy
London reports the Ind is ice is very pessimistic 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 re rted lacking broad su rt--US Military Attache
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experience in Ronan, only the " have 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 Chilean Government, in view o t8he 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.
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