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• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0002018125
• Release Decision: IPPUB U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: March 11, 2010
• Case Number: F-2009-01320
• Publication Date: December 12, 1950

48092
(b)(3)
DEC 1950
rt467
- "" GENERAL
1. No progress in Anglo-Egyptian talks on Suez--US Embassy
London has learned from a British Foreign Office official
that no progress has so far been made in Anglo-Egyptian
treaty talks and that the Egyptians: are still demanding that
UK forces evacuate Egypt within one year. US Embassy.
Cairo comments that the present Egyptian Government is
not likely to accept, on any terms, the idea of peace-time
occupation of the Suez Canal area by foreign troops, and
concludes therefore that the UK can do no better than to
temporize and prepare "to ride out the storm."
we en hoped to stay out of any general war but would cer-
tainly fight if Soviet forces attempted to "pass over Sweden"
in order to obtain bases in Norway. Vougt expressed a
desire to build up Swedish defenses sufficiently to discourage
any nation from thinking it worthwhile to invade Sweden. Foreign
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were compelled to evacuate Korea, Korea should be allowed
to pass under Chinese domination. Undeii further stated that
the US should leave Formosa to its fate and should withdraw
its fleet from around the island and its support from Chiang
Kai-shek. He also advocated that the UN should admit and the
US should recognize the Communist regime in Peiping, The
Foreign Minister strongly objected to rearming West Germany,
on the grounds that to do so would rule out a settlement of the
German issue with the USSR. Unden still hopes such a settlement
can be achieved.
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3. NORWAY: Conscript order seen as partial mobilization--
A Norwegian Government official has informed the US
Military Attache in Oslo that Norway is calling up 7,000
men for two to three months active duty in the three services.
Although the plan is called "repeat training," it appears to
the Attache to be "partial mobilizations
(Comment- The plan would increase the acting
strength of the Norwegian. armed forces to 31,500, or by
approximately 28 percent.)
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may not be able to resist this pressure, the Embassy is "`still
hopeful" because Peruvian officials do not seem to have ex-
cluded entirely the possibility of r, esubmitting the case to
the International Court of Justice.
4. PERU: Possibility of break in relations With Colombia--
According to US Embassy Lima, the Peruvian Government
appears to be under ""great pressure" to break off relations
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