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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A005800010021-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2002
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: March 7, 1946
• Content Type: REPORT

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...V* GENERAL
1, Balkan treaties.-..The State Department has suggested to
Dunn that the Deputies at the Council of Foreign Ministers
might begin work on the Balkan treaties while awaiting
instructions and committee reports on the various provi-
sions of the. Italian treaty., The Department also suggests
that Dunn obtain information regarding the USSR's attitude
on the economic and military aspects of the Balkan treaties.
2. Fifth Fleet to leave Japan--The Navy reports'that the Fifth
Fleet will withdraw from Japanese waters about 15 March.
It will be relieved by a Task Group of the Seventh Fleet
under. the command of Rear Admiral Bennett.
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sidering a coup d'etat after adjournment of Parliament on
12 .March, Qavam, after obtaining the post of President of
the .Iranian. Republic, then would accede to all. Soviet demands.
Qavam allegedly postponed his departure. from Moscow in
order to avoid questioning by Parliament.
Soviet moves--Embassy Tehran reports that Soviet
troops are being evacuated only from the area south'of the
Elburz mountains and are being retained on the Caspian
slope and in the Tabriz area, both of which are scenes of
Soviet oil-drilling operations. The troops in Azerbaijan
are apparently being concentrated near the Turkish and
Iraqi borders.
EUROPE-AFRICA
IRAN: Qavam reportedly considering a coup--Enlbass-c ,
Moscow has been told
that Qavam, at the suggestion o the Soviets maybe con
4. USSR: Censorship of US press dispatches--Charge Kennan
has recommended that the.State Department consult at once
With the home offices of An rican correspondents now in
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Moscow to ascertain whether they wish their correspon-
dents to continue filing copy. Kennan emphasizes that
cm,,. ent Soviet censorship regulations permit complete
distortion of any story filed in Moscow, without the know-
ledge of either the correspondent or his home offices
5POLAND: CJSSR brainshipmenGs--Ambassador Lane has
transmitted the text of a telegram to the UK Foreign Office
from the British Ambassador stating that: (a) the Polish
Go,;, ernment was led to believe that the Soviets would supply
Poland with, 350,000 tons of seed grain by mid-January;
(b) the Polish Minister of Agriculture now says that only
150,000 tons will be available from this source; and (c) the
Soviet Ambassadorrs declaration. that the USSR is giving
200,000 tons of grain to Poland is untrue. So far as can
be determined, 45,000 tons are coming from Germany and
110,000 tons from stocks on farms operated by the Red
Arr:iy in ex-German territory. The remaining 45,000 tons
are allegedly being sent from the Ukraine, which the Bri-
tish Ambassador questions in view of UNRRA food shipments
to that area.
0. HUNGARY: Premier makes concessions to leftists--The
Premier, following leftist threats to withdraw from the
coalition Government unless the Smallholders Party is
purged of "reactionary elements", told Schoenfeld that
he plans to make certain! political and economic concessions;
since he feels that maintenance of the coalition Government
is imperative to prevent either a leftist dictatorship or
paralyzing. strikes and unrest. He proposes to expel certain
reactionary members of the Smallholders Party, concede
nationalization of coal mines and initiate discussions
regarding nationalization of other sub-soil resources.
Concurrently, he hopes to regain Soviet confidence in the
Smallholders Party, which he considers indispensable in
order to cope with pending economic difficulties.
7. ITALY: Plebiscite_ decree-Allied HQ in the Mediterraflean
has received from the Italian Premier a draft of the decree
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now before the Consultative Assembly providing for a
plebiscite on the question of the monarchy, to be held
simultaneously with elections for the Constituent Assembly.
Under this decree, if the voting favors a republic, the Con-
stituent Assembly will elect a temporary Chief of State to
serve until the new, constitution is formulated and approved,
after which a Chief of State can be appointed in accordance
with constitutional provisions. If the vote goes against a
republic, the regime of the Lieutenant General of the Realm
will continue as at present until the new constituion comes
into force.
Pretoria to President Truman stating that ta. there is less
than two months' supply of wheat in the country, and (b) unless
the 360,000 tons requested from the Combined Food Board
for the remainder of 1946 are obtained, "starvation must
result even among the European population.'' Smuts adds
that South Africa, must also import 700,000 tons of corn
during 1946 but that a substantial portion of these imports
may be obtained from Argentina,
8. UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA: Smuts requests wheat from US--
Prime Minister Smuts has sent a message through Legation
FAR EAST.
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INDOCHINA: Outbreak in Sai on--
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French troops' in Saigon have wrec e e printing
pan o a Socialist publication and have ublicl beaten up
the most prominent local Socialist.
the three-hour riot had the sanction o high-ranking o icer
and that most observers interpreted it as an Army protest
against any moderation of terms to the Viet Nam Government.
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11. N.E.I.: Sjahrir's position strengthened _-Ambassador
Hornbeck reports that, in the opinion of an official in the
Netherlands Foreign Office, the Indonesian National Com-
mittee has strengthened Sjahrir's position by giving him
full freedom (a) to form a new cabinet from candidates put
for-ward by various political groups and (b) to conduct nego-
tiations with van Mook without continually referring back, to
Soekarno for approval.
THE AMERICAS
12. ARGENTINA: Peron}s lead increasin--Embassy Buenos
Aires reports that incoming 'returns indicate that Demo-
cratic chances of winning are steadily diminishing.
13, CHILE: Soviet Embassy to o,en-Embassy Santiago
advises that an Attache of the Soviet Embassy in Mexico
is in Chile preparing for the arrival of the Soviet Ambas-
sador to Chile.
14. COLOMBIA: Concern over military dictatorships--The
Foreign Minister of Colombia has expressed concern over
an apparent trend toward military dictatorships in American
Republics,. He believes that the Argentine Army, since the
publication of -the Blue Book, has been actively intriguing
toward this end in Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Ecuador.
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