DAILY SUMMARY - 1946/04/01

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Daily Summary Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01068476
• Document Creation Date: September 11, 2018

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1. Oavam e ectxp....tattgenaent with Soviets to take "some time"--Qavam
told Ambassador Murray on 29 March that he had not yet reached an
agreement with the Soviets and considered that final understanding
would still take some time. He said that he had delivered to the
Soviet Ambassador answers to the three notes which thp latter had
given him on 24 March. The first two replies apparently follow the
lines indicated by Qavam to Murray on 27 March (see Daily Summary
of 28 March, item 1), and the third reply was an answer to the Soviet
offer of intercession in the Azerbaijan situation. Qavam informed the
Soviets that unless his proposals on Azerbaijan were accepted, he
would regard any oil agreement as invalid. He promised Murray that
he would also drop the oil agreement, if Soviet troop withdrawals were
not carried out on schedule.
If these replies result in an agreement, Qavam plans to in-
struct Ambassador Ala to see that the Iranian question remains 'of
"continuing concern" to the Security Council until "the last Soviet
soldier has left Iran." Qavam assured Murray that he would authorize
Ala (a) to divulge to the Security Council Iran's current negotiations
with the USSR, but only in response to questions put to him by Council
members, and (b) to inform the Council of all details when any agree-
ment is signed.
US Consul Tabriz reports that "ostentatious" Soviet troop
movements, indicating evacuation from Azerbaijan was under way,
started in the Tabriz area on 30 March: Evacuation from Soviet-occupied
areas north of Tabriz was reportedly either well under way or about to
begin.
EUROPE-AFRICA
2. ITALY: King considering abdication--Admiral Stone, Chief of the Allied
Commission, has received unofficial word from the Palace that King
Victor Emanuel is seriously considering abdication rather than submit
to the referendum on the future of the monarchy (scheduled for 2 June).
Embassy Rome believes that such a move would probably strengthen
the position of the monarchists in the June elections.
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3. BULGARIA: Premier repudiates offer to gpposition parties--US Rep-
resentative Barnes reports that, "three days before the announcement
of the new Bulgarian cabinet, Premier Georgiev abruptly reversed his
apparent conciliatory attitude towards the opposition and repudiated
his previous offer to give the opposition two specific cabinet posts
(cf. Daily Summary of 27 March, item 7). The new cabinet includes
no opposition members and has the same political composition as its
predecessor.
4 USSR: Molotov receives Ambassador Smith--Ambassador Smith re-
ports that during his courtesy call to Molotov, the latter declared that
he saw no reason why "our past and present difficulties" cbuld not be
resolved and added that, while permanent prevention of war was difficult,
it was not impossible to achieve. US Charge Kennan, who was also
present, felt that the atmosphere of the interview was somewhat less
cordial than on similar previous occasions.
5 CZECHOSLOVAKIA': Soviet militarl=zatt--MA Prague reports
that there are now no organized Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia.
Recovery and supply guard detachments total 1,000 men; NKVD, per-
sonnel, mostly in civilian clothes, number between 2,000 and 3,000;
and deserters from the Red Army are estimated at between 5,000 and
10,000, mostly roaming the country in illegal bands or as individual
law breakers.
6. ALBANIA: IMEE4s19.,IBUguaz.epartga--The British, French and US
Missions in Tirana report the following violations by Albania of its
agreements with UNRRA: (a) UNRRA trucks are now being used openly
for the movement of Army troops and stores; (b) the Hoxha. Govern-
ment has received greatly needed financial aid from funds raised by
the sale of UNRRA supplies, and(c) the Government has refused per-
mission to UNRRA representatives to check up on the distribution of
UNRRA supplies outside of Tirana.
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FAR EAST
17. CHINA: Kuomintang right-wing threatens reform program--Though
the Kuommtang right-wing is condi-Int-7E7FRTFffg-fE'FFCTst the
basic prograni of constitutional reform agreed uporfby the People's
Consultative Council, Embassy Chungking reports there is no evi-
dence that the Generalissimo has back-tracked on his public support
of the PCC resolutions. The Embassy suggests that the US consider
bolstering Chiang's public position by some indication that full imple-
mentation of the PCC program is essential to lasting stability in
China. The uncertain situation in Manchuria, the Embassy declares,
tends to strengthen the position of irreconcilables in the Kuomintang
by offering them a plausible excuse fOr opposing any limitation on
Kuomintang authority.
8. KOREA: Soviet expectations�General Hodge reports that the Poli-
tical Advisor to the Soviet Commander in Korea recently expressed
the following "personal views",: (a) a Provisional Government for
Korea will be formed by the end of May, (b) after its formation all
restrictions on the movements of persons and goods between the US
and Soviet zones will be removed, and (c) troops will remain (pre-
sumably during the entire tutelary period) to prevent civil disturb-
ances.
THE AMERICAS
9. HAITI: Junta requests US firearms�The US Military Attache in
Port au Prince reportst t the Military Junta wishes to buy from
the US a small amount of firearms and ammunition for the Haitian
police in anticipation of possible disorders or an attempted coup
during the 12 May elections. Both the Military Attache and the US
representative in Haiti recommend that the arms be supplied.
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