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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006000060023-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 23
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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1. 1,118 recoamnen& stro e~, ao f.on ,n Austr trea _-Th
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Department of State has ntIie c
current London Conference that:, in view of the Commun
coup in Czechoslovatkla, the 118 fav Ors a fatly hardens d
position in future negotiation; T1ith the USS # on the Au r ,In
weighed from the otaru`zpoilr# ~f 3af guarrliflg Austrian pcl
tical and economic n ependsnr.115.
2. UK favors brow 4er western I; r. ?~an t --US }
London has been infor ne 'r orei Office that
the British draft treaty for u3, at the five-peter Brusb&
meeting begun on 4 March is net directed solely again)
Germany but "more :aearly ap; ,roachcs" the Rio Tre .
According to the Embassy, t I* Fo*eign W ice is mite l.t ,.e?.
ful about the outcome AA the nreti .g, despite a current
Anglo-Belgian impasse on econom`c cAuestions.
(CIA Comment.. Dovc:b pmt?nta in Czechoslovakia
and Finland are malnl:i resps3ibb`3 for Impelling the UK
to favor a Rio-type pact, =which, is directed against all
aggressors, and to sped up the fItio-purer negotiatic o
'Previously, the UK had cbjecb; d that to negotiate a Rio-
type pact now was to "move too fa~3t.1')
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3. Proposed fore Me Id
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F nbassy
ted to
Minister Bidault bas reiterahis I1
grave concern over the ItallaIt pol .tical situation, and 14
possible serious consequences; in `r nce, and has strOst d
the urgent need for the US, the UK, and France to issue
joint statement on the liars colotries.
U"' r its . I r? O- ntk 1x ~ml z?e':a. r J h.~. I Iif #
a; .f. i ? sic d n w be 2 JAMi: ab: %e f r > 113 a,n,, ~ the 1: i:c
sane a statement concernin; the possible return to Rat!?
oii the US_jJK r;ouo ill Trieste as recently proposed by
Italian Foreign Minister Sfor ;a and 1">ythe French Forei n
Office. oawnent 1` o.
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4. FRANCE: Gaullism ni i e Government in Cc*fidea
US AmbassOor r er re a the *es
resentment against the t o rnment s decision to vat.thhold
honor guard of French tr s from a war memorJ servi
scheduled for 7 March,. at w iic i De Gaulle is to op ak, the
Gaullist inter-group n.*' vote against the Govere nt in
8 March vote of coaftd' ee on the exceptional taz Ivy'.
(CIA Comment: f Gaullist deputies vot4 a irs
the Schuman Government, C A believes that Schwa s sli ;
margin may disappear and that the Government eon d very 'soli
lose the vote of coaficleince.),
5. CZECHOSLOVAKIA.: 13,4ines likely to remain in i
President Benes' Chart llo; h .stold US Am as -a
hardt that although 13enes is undecided whether to resign
not, he is disposed to *e a fi in Czechoslovakia. 4ccored y
to the Chancellor, Benes bell eves that he would be of littlel
assistance to the Czec!*oslo people from exile, tut that it;,
presence in Czechoaloi aidia ,-,gill tend to encourage esistr. e
to the Communists.
6. FINLAND: Views
sador Matthews in StorJ
chances of success in soppy
are worth the consequences
considering the persona' pr
the' presumed inability Or
SA
e isles she i ism tb
Finland against S viet pr
of failure. Matthews lteves
stige involved in St4114 's lette
military aid, there is l tle likelihood. of adequate innish
sistance. Matthews aci t the failure of a determined
well-publicized effort to sa* Finland would serif ly she
Swedish confidence in e wwstern powers.
Soviet demands for * rri --The US Milt. A
in Oslo re
orts
p
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t e r m s o f the USSR for a 5o e - Finn pact are: ovi
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control 'ort F141w: the, Aa1Wxt: Islands, and `tt Port t
Aabo, in return fear parts of arI# and caecaeeir n s at
Purl la; and Via) the alto. - $nr. of Soriet cfficeri I. r 1'1t t:
Army units.
(CIA Corr ~ ou.si .rs that t'ils ri: rt is
probably based -,3n s factL Hot. T;t$e Initial denaa c of the
JS$R are as reporket, hol;ryt ir, it is likely that tba 1YSJB: v I
modify them in (3-nur a of ,aegf t :a.)
1N:AR I.AVT-AIICA
7. PAi i;BTIl cakes for *abtainimpe ..vs
Minister Childs In J ce rsa4Cn with
Aszalntl Pasha., Sw,r i '3' 1..# rat Of the Arab Legg-iv,, on
possible steps to insl re ;aac , in P estine pe>ldfi - a settle
ment of -the issue, A za z Pa ba c flared that: O the
jeans would also Tigre , tb(A bs't wW submit
to t d is armament, including the e) im natioar of both Arab anii Jewish
terrorists; and ()) Je ish ina i a j in r+ nl , ~ o
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be s
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for it alas'.: r,ne Year until the situatio to
Paiestfne has easedn
(CIA Comment: " file
i re
Az a Pasha's wstate n
reflect the moderate fttlt lde cf reaoonsible Arab 1raders,
it is doubtful whether' all he .Arabs in Palestine co} be
effectively disarrued,
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