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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A005800040068-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 68
• Publication Date: December 19, 1946
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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1. Tito'sposition on the Italian treaty--US Ambassador Smith in Moscow
attributes Tito s hint to UK Ambassador Peake
to Tito s
concern over a pres s group and 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: Broadeninz of Grora Government rumored--US Delegate
ACC reports an increa
f
se o
seemingly well-sounded rumors regard-
ing the formation of a more representative Government to include all
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 of and must obtain food Imports
before the Peace Treaty is signed
The offifiai simlr of if i ,...-~L n t~
for a corn loan. ;..... + saxc a wrmiu request
4. GREECE: Inaduacy of US press in Greece--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..
DDA Memo, 4 Apr 77
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T OONTIAL'
5. FRANCE: Reason for approval of Blum Government--According to
from the awareness of political leaders that the weakness of French
democracy, "as now practiced' would be even more clearly exposed ~9
to the public and that the result might be an attempt at some "'extreme"
solution (the Communists or de Gaulle). Caffery 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 that the Communist
:party, upon orders from oscow, 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 believes that the tactics of the
French Communists thus far indicate that they will continue to attempt
to "colonize" France by gradual stages. He 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: Collapse of Azerbaijan ream-The Assistant US Military
Attache in Tehran, who has just returned from Tabriz, reports that
at an extraordinary meeting of the Azerbaijan Parliament on I I Decem-
ber the members split into two factions as Pishovari and his followers
advocated continuing resistance and Biryia, supported by Governor
Djavid, insisted on immediate compromise.
The session ended when Pishevari resigned and Biryla, 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
VP and a large
mob in seized arms and began killin
"D
g
e
mocrats. 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 lay fallowing the
entry of Iranian forces into Azerbaijan the soviets sent tft truck-
loads of swan arms and ammunition to Tabriz.
FAR EAST
7. CHINA: Commulni$t - unw4fli8to compromise--US Em'bas8
Nanking comments that "*the only possible Interpretation now"
of a statement by Chou En4ai 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.
es aMeRIMMM to tut n--The
Embassy also refits that, wider 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 Euomintang that it was to support the
Constitution as he had proposed It and "without any sense."
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