5TH REISSUE - PRESS AND OTHER REACTIONS TO TRUMAN'S BECOMING PRESIDENT AND FORECAST OF CHANGES IN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY (1945)

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• Publication Date: May 25, 1945
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Ref. No.: 3/NBF/T27 (of 27.2,1951)
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5Th REISSUE
PRESS AND OTHER REACTIONS TO TRUMAN'S BECOMING PRESIDENT
? AND FORECAST OF CHANGES IN Ala2ICAN FOREIGN POLICY
(1945)
From: NEW YORK
To: MOSCOW
No s. : 781-787
25th, 26th May 1945
[7-part message complete]
[Part I] To VIKTOR[i]. Copy to 8th Department.
As a result of MATROS's[ii] accession to power, a considerable
change in the foreign policy of the COUNTRY[STRANA][iii] should be
expected, first and foremost in relation to the USSR (see our No.
350[a]). [7 groups unrecovered] in economic circles which in the
past were not always able to exert decisive influence in questions
of principle affecting foreign policy, since this
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Part III]
[Part IV]
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an organised campaign to "get hold of" HATROS and bring about a
change in the policy of the COUNTRY towards the USSR. This campaign
was reflected in the first instance in. the most reactionary section
of the press, which has welcomed MATROS's accession to power,
emphasising particularly that henceforth the foreign policy of the
COUNTRY will be decided, not independently by MATROS as it was in
KAPITANts[iv] day, but jointly with influential members of the Senate
and 'House of Representatives (including people hostile to us). [6
groups unrecovered] MATROS is maintaining friendly relations in the
Senate, not only with Democrats but also with Republicans, including
such extreme reactionaries as TAFT, WHEELER[UILER], BARKLEY and others.
The reactionaries are -setting particular hopes on the possibility of
getting direction of the COUNTRYis foreign policy wholly into their
own hands, partly because MATROS is notoriously untried and ill-
informed on these matters,
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the press of the COUNTRY is conducting [3 groups unrecovered i of all
reactionary groups, political and economic, to influence public opinion
in the direction they desire
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The leading protagonists of this campaign and its instigators are
representatives of the BANK[v], the Army and the Navy [7 groups
unrecovered] after KAPITANts death and the end of the war in EUROPE.
In newspaper circles in BABYLON[VAVILON][vi] and GARTHAGE
[KARFAGET][vii] it is common knowledge, as has been confirmed to me
on separate [1 group unrecoverod] by Shi.LELI[viii], RIChARD[ix],
ShEF[x], Joseph BARNES, GASSIDY, HIGHTM7R[KhAJTAUR] and many other
correspondents, that the representatives of the BANK, GREW[GRtYu],
DUNN, HOLNES[GOL'MS],
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VANDENBERG 1 EATON[ITON], CONiJ,LY[KANALLI], BLOOM, Admirals KING and
LEAHY[LEGI] and GeneralsSOMERVELL[SOMMERUEL] and MARSHALL are carrying
on a systematic anti-Soviet campaign wherein many
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The sources enumerated above said that one of the bitterest anti-
Soviet propagandists is KAP1TALIST[xi], who
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[Part VI]
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In private conversations with correspondents [C5 KAPITALIST] [1 group
unrecovered] that the USSR is aiming at world mastery and is trying
.to take up a dominating position at the Conference in BABYLON. To
prove his words KAPITALIST does not shrink from any chicanery. Thus
for example one of his latest [1 group unrecovered] fabrications was
that our delecation allegedly threatened to wall: out of the Conference
if our proposal about the chairmanship was not accepted..
I read the newspapers during the long journey[xii] and, in so
doing, read mainly about questions of foreign policy. In all these
international affairs MATROS pays groat heed to the advice of the
above-mentioned representatives of the LVOIY, the Army and the Navy.
BARNES AND ShliEL' in talking with me forecast that one should expect
an even greater intensification?of the press campaign [9 groups
unrecoverod] the campaign are at present pursuing a double aim: to
get MATROS firmly into their clutches and at the same time to obtain
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[2 groups unrecovered] has shown that the campaign of intimi-
dation has spent itself, particularly [5 groups unrecovered] the
conviction that without financial aid [1 group unrecovered the USSR
ravaged by war, is in no condition to re-establish its economy with
any speed. Therefore [8 groups unrecovered] aid demanded at the
present time in
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economic aid [2 groups unrecovered] supplementary credit. To quote
the above-mentioned sources, the foreign policy of the courITRy at the
present time is moving in the direction Of full
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the moat active propaganda which, judging by its latest information,
is clearly distorting the facts. In a recentoonversation with me, the
Director of the Institute of Pacific Affairs, GARTER, in the main
confirmed RIChARD's.statements about the COUNTRY's policy in MINA
(which have been reported to you [5 groups unrecoverable]
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Sh1EL1 and BARNES have expressed serious alarm at the anti- Soviet
atmosphere which has arisen in the COUNTRY and were, extremely in-
dignant at what MATRO3 had said, [7 groups unrecovered] the ISLAND[xiii].
KAPRAL's[xiv] statement on the question of the sixteen Poles was
described by ShMEL' as "disgusting servility towards EDEN". RIChARD
particularly asked that our attention. should be drawn to the fact that
the Head of the COUNTRY's [delegation] [b] to the Reparations Commission,
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PAULEY[POLE-T], although a private owner of oilfields, actually
represents the interests of Standard Oil and in RIChARD's opinion
his appointment is a "gesture of friendship" by MATROS to the oil men.
There is no need to speak of the position of -business circles in the
campaign which has developed here, inasmuch as these circles are fully
represented in the most responsible positions [C% in the BANK]
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Today a report was published that MATROS has sent to the USSR his
personal representatives HOPKINS
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DAVIESts[xv] trip to SIDON[xvi]
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No. 482
SERGEJ[xvii]
Notes: [a] Not available.
[b] Inserted by translator.
Comments: VIKTOR: Lt.-Gen. P.M. FITIN.
[ii] MATROS: i.e. "SAILOR"; Harry S. TRUMAN...
[iii] COUNTRY: The U.S.A.
[iv] KAPITAN: i.e. "CAPTAIN"; Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT.
[v] BANK i U.S. State Department.
[vi] BABYLON: SAN FRANCISCO.
[vii] aUREIAGE: WASHINGTON, D.C.
[viii] ShMELT: i.e. "BUMBLEBEE"; Walter LIPPMANN.
[ix] RIChARD: i.e. "RICHARD"; Harry Dexter WHITE was known by this
covername, but he seems an unlikely figure to occur
in this list of newspaper correspondents.
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[Cont [ x] shar : i.e. "CHIEF"; unidentified covername.
[xi] KAPITALIST: i.e. "CAPITALIST"; probably William Averell HARRIAK.
[xii] Long journey: PRAVDTN, the originator of this message, returned to
FEW YORK from SAN FRANCISCO on 14th May 1945.
GREAT BRITAIN.
[xiii] The ISLAND:
[xiv] hAPRAL:
[xv] DAVIM
[xvi] SIDON:
[xvii] SERGEJ:
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i.e. "CORPORAL"; Edward R. STETTINIUS, Jr.
Joseph E. DAVIES, who was engaged on. special missions
to LONDON and MOSCOW as President TRgaNis personal
representative.
LONDON.
Vladimir Sergeevich PRAVDIN, Editor of the TASS News.
Agency in NEW YORK CITY. ? He covered the United
Nations Conferenc.1 at SAN FRANCISCO, which was in
session from April 25th to June 26th 1945.
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