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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100020029-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: November 27, 1950
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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is held, there is hope for an improvement in East-West re
lations..
defenses can be shown before a Foreign Ministers-conference
Bevin also believes that-if progress in organizing western
there. is some prospect of :a lessening of world tension
less aggressive attitude on, the part of the USSR Viandat ;
cussing the Soviet proposal for a Foreign MinisxtrS con-
ference , expressed the belief that there is. v1dence,,of a
to .US Enbassy London, Foreign Secretary. ; Bevin, -in dish;
1. -Bevin hopeful of lessening East-West tension -jccordi~iJ
GENERAL
.2, View on US-British Relations--The US Representative at
the UN reports that UK Minister of State Younger. is be-
coming seriously concerned over the effect on the British
Government of US press.criticism of the UK..,Younger
fears that British public opinion would get the- impression
that the UK was being forced to take an intransigent posi=
tion. In such an event, the Government would be under
pressure to undertake negotiations with the. USSR and" might
be forced to make public statements which could lead the
US and the UK farther apart on Far Eastern and Soviet
problems..
3. INDOCHINA: French military plans --French General De
Latour, newly, ,appointed Commanding General 'in North
Vietnam, has informed US Consul Blancke in Hanoi that
he will try to hold the Tonkin Delta but is. not certain that
he can. De Latour plans to: (a) complete the organization of
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mobile reserves into combat teams by the 'end of November;
(b) retain by the end of 1950 a sizeable area of the Delta;
and (c) begin dealing offensive blows when US tanks and re-
placements from France arrive, but not with the intent of
holding points attacked. The General does not feel that
Chinese are present on a large scale 'among Viet Minh forces
and stressed that all his present plans assume no real Chinese
intervention. In case ,this- assumption is unfounded, however,
De Latour said that "matters would be frankly beyond him
and out of his hands."
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