DAILY SUMMARY - 1946/12/12

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Daily Summary Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02931576
• Document Creation Date: September 11, 2018

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I. Chinese seek loan throuill"RonkalIct_4riatyill_n"--US Embassy
Nanking reports that China s plan for an East Asian Regional Economy"
(see Daily Summary of 4 December, item I) was the subject of a recent
memorandum from T.V. Soong to General Marshall but that statements
to the Embassy by Wong Wen-hao, Vice President of the Executive Yuan,
Indicate that this Soong memorandum was a mere trial balloon. The Em-
bassy regards the plan as "primarily a disingenuous attempt to circum-
vent current impediments in the way of a $500,000,000 Exim Bank loan."
EUROPE
2. NORWAY: USSR 1.,JLT_q..qs for Svalbard discussions.--Foreign Minister
Lange has informed US Charge Huston that the USSR is pressing Norway
for early negotiations on the joint defense of Spitsbergen and Bear Island,
but that the necessity for consulting the Norwegian Storting will make it
impossible for discussions to begin before the end of January.
3. GERMANY: UK ft?�1:s r_tp_a_rations concessions to USSR--A high British
official in Berlin has informed the Acting US Political Adviser of the
British fear that, if the Soviets are granted reparations from current
production from all Germany in return for economic unification, they
will simply "milk the cow that the US and UK are feeding." The British
official believes that possible Soviet political concessions would be only
temporary and that the USSR will try to maintain "difficult" conditions
in the absence of a Communist-controlled German government.
4. ITALY: No serious threat from illta_rmm...oiNa--US Charge Rome
reports his bell based upon investigation, that although many commit-
tees, movements and groups of para-military character have been organ-
ized in various parts of Italy, few if any are at present a serious threat
to the government. There is also no evidence of cohesion among them.
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