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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100060028-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: March 1, 1950
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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GENERAL
1. Possible Egy tian-Israeli peace negotiations--The US
member of the UN Palestine Conciliation Commission
(PCC) in Geneva has learned from the Israelis of a secret
meeting between Israeli and Egyptian PCC representatives
regarding the possibility of direct Israeli-Egyptian settle-
ment negotiations. According to the Israelis, the Egyptian
representative indicated that some commitment by Israel
would be a necessary preliminary to direct negotiations
and emphasized Egyptt's interest in a territorial settle
rent in the Southern Negeb which would provide contiguity
with the other Arab states; the Israelis questioned Egypt's
need for such contiguity and suggested that a non-aggression
pact might be more palatable to Egypt than a formal peace
settlement. The Israelis expressed a belief that the door
had been left open for further discussions.
EUROPE
2. NORWAY: Reaction to news of H-bomb--US Charge Villard
in Oslo transmits the opinion of Norwegian Foreign Minis-
ter Lange that there is a definite undercurrent of defeatism
and sense of .futility in Norway resulting from news of the
H-bomb and that there is real danger the idea of neu-
trality for Western Europe may receive some support in
both Norway and Denmark. According to Villard, Lange
considers the present US position regarding possible US
USSR atomic discussions 66emi.nentlycorrect and logical."'
but believes the US must not be put in a position of negativ-
ism regarding the atom control problem and that something
must be done to demonstrate active and intensive effort
toward a solution. Lange also expressed 'the opinion that
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the Atlantic Pact provides a framework for choosing
a spokesman on. behalf of all Western nations and that
if the US could be chosen as such a spokesman, a meeting
between the two giants? might be the most suitable
arrangement.
3. GERMANY East zone militarization reported--US High
Commissioner McCloy in Frankfurt has been informed
that a large-scale remilitarization effort is being made
in. the Soviet zone of Germany, resulting in. the formation
of a military organization of 40,000 to 50,000 men, The
High Commissioner comments that the military capabili-
ties of this organization, 'which is under complete Soviet
control, will remain negligible for at least another eight
months, McCloy suggests that a Western protest against
Soviet remilitarization activities would- (a) serve as
a basis for further Western propaganda against the pro-
gram; (b) register Western moral indignation; (c) under-
mine to some extent the current Soviet "peace" propa-
ganda line; and (d) let the East Germans know that the
West is "not completely unaware of developments" in, the
Soviet zone.
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