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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 26, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CIA No. 49778
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to Britain seeks to delay UN General Assembly meeting until
after American elections: Britain has asked Belgium to support
a tentative propose to postpone the opening of the United
Nations General Assembly from 15 October until shortly after 4
November, according to a high Belgian Foreign Office official,
He states that Belgium will probably support the British pro-
posal if it is made, (S S/S Brussels 206, 21 Aug 52)
Comment: Last spring the head of the British UN dele-
gation stated that his Foreign Office believed that the seventh
session of the General Assembly, originally scheduled for
September, should be postponed because Foreign Secretary Eden
felt that anything he might say would be injected into the
American presidential campaign. At that time, US delegate
Warren Austin stated that he did not wish the General Assembly
session to be tied in any way to the election,
2, French display lack of aggressiveness in Indochina:
Ambassador Heath, apparently referring to a report that Paris
is reluctant to endorse General Salan?s plans for airborne
operations in Indochina this fall, has expressed astonishment
at the French lack of a sense of urgency, or even of interest,
in developing an offensive in Indochina,
He believes that if "vague future claims" on available
aircraft are allowed to take precedence over combat needs
in Indochina, it will be difficult to justify to the American
public the scale and priority of American material aid to
Indochina, (TS S/S Saigon 436, 24 Aug 52)
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Comment: General Salan's plans for carrying the offensive
to the Viet Minh by dropping airborne battalions behind enemy
lines necessitate the loan, from France or the United States,
of a large number of transport aircraft,
Although such an operation would be an important step
away from what has seemed a defensive psychology on the part
of the French, the project's practicality is open to question,
in view of the Viet Minh's usual avoidance of open combat and
its ability at dispersal,
rather than to Libyan initiative: (TS S/S Benghazi 24, 22 Aug
suspects that the new demands
3o Libya may demand double compensation from US for air base:
The Libyan Government will soon request the United States for
an annual payment of $2,000,000 for use of the Wheelus Air
Base instead of the $1,000,000 previously agreed upon, American
Minister Villard believes that the Libyan demand will carry
with it the suggestion that ratification. of the base agreement
will be impossible without the increased. compensation.
Villard believes that Prime Minister Muntasser has delayed
submitting the base agreement to parliament because of Libyan
indecision on how much additional compensation to demand, He
Libyan officials
have previously indicated their desire to capitalize on the
country's strategic position,
4. Dutch reassured on NATO defense plans: The Dutch Acting
Defense Minister has stated tha enera Ridgway's letter of
14 August to the Netherlands Chief of Staff has convinced the
Dutch of the determination of Generals Ridgway and Juin to
defend the Netherlands in case of hostilities,
The Dutch Minister admitted that speculation among Dutch
officials and in the press that the Allies would withdraw from
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the Netherlands under pressure has had an "unhelpful" effect
on both the Netherlands and NATO, (TS Paris 1130, 21 Aug 52)
Comment: The Dutch, who have suspected that the French
defense concept was based on withdrawal from large parts of the
Low Countries, had begun to believe that NATO air-base concen-
trations did not protect the Netherlands adequately, The Dutch
press had been speculating on discord between France and other
NATO countries over defense of the Elbe as against the Rhine.
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