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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006000040063-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: July 22, 1948
• Content Type: SUMMARY

. 22 JUL 1948
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GENERAL
I. Western Eu_rmean uni.a endorses llud.m Berlin s
EmbassyThe Hague reports that the foreign ministers of the
five western European union powers have agreed that the
western powers should stand firm in Berlin but must not
close the door to the USSR. The ministers reportedly agreed
that from three to five years of peace at the present rate of
recovery will be needed by their countries to build up their
military and economic potential and that they would be unable
to defend themselves if conflict broke out soon between the
US and the USSR. The ministers expressed the hope that the
US could make manifest its military support of the western
union countries in a substantial way because this support is
needed if those countries are to make the most of their po-
tentialitles. The western union representatives generally
believe that a broader agreement, such as one covering the
Atlantic area and including Greenland and Iceland, would be
of questionable worth at this time because it might be con-
sidered provocative by the USSR.
EUROPE
2. YUGOSLAVIA: 7,119,Emetkilnat ww,..t.s.kgyjae.4- -The
US Military Attache in Rome has been informed by the Italian
Minister of Defense that duriag the past two weeks a marked
change in Yugoslavia's attitude toward Italy has been revealed
by: (a) the absence of all friction between Yugoslav and Italian
troops on the border; and (b) friendly approaches to Italian
officials by Yugoslav diplomats in Rome.
a_aly....Eias,?f Tito's p_o_sitign--US Charge Reams in
Belgrade reports his belief that for the first time Tito may
now actually enjoy the support of the majority of the Yugoslav
people. Reams reasons that Yugoslays now see in Tito: (a)
their best defense against the USSR and further sovietiza-
tion; (b) their only guarantee against forcible collectivization;
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and (c) vindication of their national pride and superiority ?vet
Bulgarians, Hungarians, and Albanians. Reams asserts, how 3V
that to secure and use this new national support, Tito cannot
merely reiterate answers already made to the Cominfarra
must 7310VO ahead in new and affirmative directions in order lo
reconcile his claims to Communist orthodoxy with nationalistic
Yugoslav thinking.
(CIA Comment: Although CIA concurS in general wliti
Reams' analysis, it is unlikely that Tito will make airy new
moves until he has abandoned all hope of a rapprochemeitt
the Kremlin. Moreover, the popular support for Titils slant
against the Kremlin does not represent endorsement by the
Yugoslav people of Tito's domestic policy. Regardless of
the outcome of his disagreements wtth the liremlin, Tito Iva)
have serious difficulties in winning populate support for his
regime.)
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