DAILY SUMMARY - 1946/04/20

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Daily Summary Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01068493
• Document Creation Date: September 11, 2018

Approved for Release: 2018/09/05 CO1068493
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EUROPE-AFRICA
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1946
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1. FRANCE: Gatlin desires MRP remain in Cabinet--Embassy� Paris
teported, just prior to the Assembly's approval of the draft Constitu-
tion on 10 April, that several observers had noted a significant change
In Gouin's attitude regarding the MRP. Gouin apparently had reversed
his view that an MRP vote against the Constitution would require the
elimination of that party from the Government.
2. ITALY: US and UK oppose any election postponement--According to -
Embassy Rome, the British Ambassador has been asked by several
conservative "non-official" Italians to take action to postpone the
Italian elections. 'The British are strongly opposed to deferment of
elections. The State Department has authorized Embassy Rome to de-
clare that the US (a) would deplore any postponement and (b) looks for
every effort by all Italian groups to guarantee free and orderly balloting.
3. FINLAND: Finnish naVsion to Moscow--Reports from US Naval Attache
and Minister Hamilton at Helsinki state that (a) the Finnish General
Staff was not informed of the visit to Moscow of the Prime Minister and
five Cabinet members (see Daily Summary of 11 April, item 8) until
two days before the mission departed and (b) that "certain facts support
the idea that the Finnish Government had not planned to send a mission
now.
4. CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Conr.nunist ore-election attack op UpIR.RA
.The US UNRRA representative in Czechoslovakia has reported that
Evzen Loebl, chief Czech liaison officer with UNRRA, (a) has been in-
creasingly uncooperative, and (b) recently wrote a newspaper article
containing many "deliberate misstatements of fact" concerning UNRRA
operations in Czechoslovakia. (Loebl is also chief of the Czech Relief
and Rehabilitation Office and a prominent member of the Communist
Party.) The US UNRRA representative (a) comments that Loebes tactics
are clearly designed to assist the Communist Party in the coming Czech
elections by minimizing UNRRA assistance to Czechoslovakia, and (b)
proposes to urge the Czech Government to relieve Loebl of his post as
liaison officer.
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DDA Memo, 4 'Pr 77
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Date: MAR 1978 By: 44 It
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