DAILY SUMMARY - 1946/08/12

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• Document Creation Date: September 11, 2018

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1, Proposed Turkish reply to Soviet note on Straits--The Turkish Foreign
'Office has tnformed US Embassy Ankara that kb considering a reply
to the Soviet note on the Straits which would declare "inadmissible"
the Soviet proposals for restriction of responsibility for the Straits
"regime" to "Black Sea powers" and for joint Soviet-Turkish defense
of the Straits. The Turks regard the latter as contrary to Turkish
- sovereignty and as a cover for Soviet bases in the Straits. The reply
would also (a) deny Soviet charges that Turkey permitted violation of
the Montreux Convention during the war, (b) invite attention to the
failure of the Soviet note to comply with procedures prescribed in the
_Convention, (c) agree to "revision" of the Convention but not to a new
"regime," and (d) agree to discuss, "under proper circumstances,"
Soviet ,proposals for passage of ships through the Straits.
2. British motives Indiverting Jews to Cyprus -.-The British Embassy in
Cairo has Wormed the US Legation that the inc is diverting illegal
Jewish immigrants to Cyprus in order to thwart (a) an apparent Zionist
plan to "force illegal immigrants in overwhelming numbers on Pales-
tine! and (b) a suspected Soviet plan to place considerable numbers of
"trained Communist agents'", on ships leaving Soviet-controlled ports
and among the Jews coming from the USSR and Poland through Italy.
The British expressed the hope that the US would not object to the
Cyprus plan, adding that most immigrants would be sent to Palestine
"as quotas become available."
3. Arab Conference may milt over use of violence--US Legation Cairo
reports that the Arab Foreign Ministers" Conference, which convenes
on 12 August in Alexandria, may produce a struggle between (a) the
Iraqi and Palestinian Arabs, who favor "Arab self-help by violence,"
and (b) the more moderate group led by the Secretary-General of the
_Arab Leave.
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5. USSR: Reported development of radio-guided rockets--General Weems,
3 3(h)(2) US Representative ACC Hungary, has been informed
that Soviet authorities recently have brought
three German weapons experts to Hungary to work on gasfuels for
rocket weapons. One of the Germans, now in Soviet uniform, is said to
have stated that the USSR is conducting extensive research on radio-
guided-rockets, which already have been developed to fly "over 700
miles and return," and are referred to as "V-8" and 'V-4." Weems
characterizes the report as "possibly true.
6. FRANCE: Communist "patriotism" unlikely to win votes--US. Military
Attache Paris believes that withdrawal of French Communist represent-
atives from the High Court of Justice (on grounds that collaborators are
being acquitted or sentenced too lightly) is part of a Conimunist effort to
� establish the Party as the "most patriotic." The MA comments that
such tactics are unlikely to win. many votes at the next elections, and
points out that Communist attempts in the Assembly to invalidate the
elections of three Deputies associated with the fall of France and to re-
organize the High Court were both overwhelnakzgly defeated.
7. HUNGARY: Government not - to survive ace settleznent--Gen-
eral Weems reports at, in view of the diminishing spirit of cooperation
among political parties it is "highly questionable" whether Nagy's
coalition Government will remain in power after the Peace Conference,
8. BULGARIA: Efforts to circumvent treaty lipaitationeoi Army--Accord-
tug to US Political Representative Barnes, the Bulgarian Interior Minis-
ter has submitted to the Assembly a bill creating a new "frontier militia"
to be "recruited from the barracks." Barnes believes that the bill is a
step in the Government's efforts to circumvent peace treaty limitations
on the Bulgarian military establishment.
9- IRAN: gaeirai tribe may tura against Qavank-One of the chiefs of the
powerful South Iranian Qashqal tribe, which recently indicated it -would
support Qavam (see Daily Summary of 24 July, item 9), has told Allen
that he expects the Qashqai to turn against Qevam because of the "pro-.
Tudeh composition of Qavam's new Cabinet." The chief believes that
Qavam "has irretrievably passed the Government into Tudeh hands"
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and stated that the Qashqai intend to prevent Tudeh penetration into
their area by force If necessary.
10. KOREA: Joint Commission postponed indefiniteiy--General Hodge
reports that the USSR, in its reply to his 15 June suggestion that
Joint Commission negotiations be resumed, persists in excluding all
opponents of trusteeship from consultation and continues generally to
confuse Communism with Democracy. Hodge is "ready to go on record
as saying that so long as we tolerate the activities of the Kremlin-
controlled Communist Party in our occupation zone, we are undoubtedly
appeasing the Russians and increasing their belief that we will finally
give in to their demands."
11. JAPAN: Soviet decision on reparations due soon--Ambassador Smith
has learned that Novikoff hopes to have the Soviet decision on Japanese
reparations in two or three days.
12. PHILIPPINES: Hukbalahap activity--The Commanding General Army
Forces, Western Pacific reports that a significant concentration' of
Hukbalahap troops has seized Masantol, in Pampanga Province, north-
west of Manila, enforced civilian subsistence of troops, and organized
positions for offense and defense. Huk leaders are reported to regard
their present truce with the Government as 'part of thd{ "strategy for
reorganization, deployment and logistics." ,
13. CHINA: Seizure of properties financed by US labor--US Consul Gen-
eral Chungking reports that on 6 August local police and municipal
officials seized the local property and personnel of the Chinese Federa-
tion of Labor. Most of the seized property had been acquired by the
Federation with funds supplied by American labor organizations. US
Labor Attache Shanghai believes that the incident will stand as a general
-symbol of governmental suppression of trade unionism in China. �
14. SIAM: Military students to US--US Military Attache Bangkok has
expressed the belief that unless theUS admits Siamese students to
US military schools, "the swing towards Britain will be such as to
nullify our present preferential position with the Siamese."
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