DAILY SUMMARY - 1946/08/21

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01068519
• Document Creation Date: September 11, 2018

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GENERAL
21 AUG 1945
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1. Guided missiles over Sweden--A Swedish representative at the Red Air
celebration in Moscow has told US Military. Attache Moscow that 200
flying bombs have passed over Sweden. Most of the bombs, according
to radar plottings, come from the Peenemuende area and some may
, have come from Baltic coastal areas. As no reports of the bombs have
been .received from Finland, it is probable that they drop in the Cidf of
Bothnia after traversing Sweden at a speed between 240 and 360 miles
per hour, The Swedish official believes that the bombs are similar to
Int slightly larger than the V-1, and are generally under accurate radio
control.
2. Czechoslovakia about to recognize Giral--According to Caffery Foreign
Minister Masaryk has told a member of US Embassy Paris that Czecho-
slovak recognition of the Giral Spanish "Republican" Government would'
be announced "in a couple of days."
3. Soviet troop concentration on Iranian border--US Military Attache
Tabriz has reported that as of 19 August no information was available
on the reported Soviet troop concentration along the Soviet-Iranian bor-
der. The Attache believes� that "a build-up of some nature" is taking
place but his "guess" is that the War Department's estimate of nine
Soviet divisions is more accurate than the rumor of between 25 and 30
divisions.
EUROPE-AFRICA
4. GERMANY: USSR �mop interzonal exchange of newspaners--US
Political Advisor Murphy reports that at the 19 August meeting of the
Political Directorate the. Soviet member objected to the peremptory
tone of the US proposal for the interzonal exchange of newspapers; and
expressed misgivings about the liberties which certain "hooligan" Ger-
man editors might take.
5. FRANCE: Socialists split over policy toward Communiets--Socialist
Party members have told Caffery that, among the controversies
"raging" within the Party, the issue of unity of action with the Commu-
nists is the most provocative. (Future Socialist policy will be estab-
lished in the Party's national convention late in August.)
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6,, GREECE: Border infiltration by ian Communists--US Delega-
tion ACC Bulgaria has learned from reliable sources that Bulgarian
Communist personnel, weapons and money are being moved across the
Bulgarian border into northeastern Greece. However, neither the Dele-
gation nor the Acting Military Attache in Athens has any information to
support rumors of an imminent Communist revolution in Greece. The
Delegation believes that such a revolution is "highly unlikely" at present.
Rc_mlignal_amymp._Ex.RL_ jiteci Rate crisis--US Ambassador
MacVeagh reports that a cabinet crisis may result from the sudden order
of Defense Minister Mavromikhalis, "handsomely" increasing the allow-
ances of all Army officers. The Finance Minister has threatened to
resign on the ground that the order will force a corresponding increase
In civil service salaries and nullify current efforts to improve the finan-
cial situation. MacVeagh comments that Mavromikhalis action is
another example of the irresponsibility of extreme rightist Government
officials.
US and UK to observe plebiscite idols Uma --Byrnes reports that
the US and UK have agreed to keep their observers now in Greece to
carry out informal observation of the Greek plebiscite.
7 YUGOSLAVIA: US to1_2 vtest directly i plane attack�US Ambas-
sador Patterson has been instructed to inform Tito personally of the
seriousness with which the US views the recent Yugoslav attacks on US
aircraft,
FAR EAST
8. INDIA: Moslem LemtmaymilsESAlcutta riots--US Military Liaison
OfficerMarbv elhi attributes the Calcutta riots principally to the failure
of the Bengal Ministry, which is dominated by the Moslem League, to
take precautions in view of Jimice8 call for observation of 16 August as
Direct Action Day. The League Prime Minister for Bengal is reported
to have given moral and material support to the rioters. The Officer
believes that the riots have alienated the Viceroy from the League and
that the League Ministries in the provinces of Bengal and Sind will be
dissolved,
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9. CHINA: Nationalist mtli r to attack Communists--US Military
Attache Nanking has been told by the Nationalist Chi Staff in Man-
churia that the immediate objective of National Government forces, "If
not restrained" by Chiang's orders, will be to force the Communists
from Harbin and Tsitsihar and cut them off from all international bor-
ders except on the northwest. The Chief of Staff considers that if the
Government forces do not attack this winter, the Communist position
by spring will be strong enough to make operations against them "much
more difficult"
UNRRA operations in Formosa--US Consul Blake at Taihoku
does not concur in the recommendation, made by the Chief of the UNRRA
Regional Office in Formosa, that UNRRA operations in Formosa be
liquidated (see Daily Summary of 17 August, item 7). Blake holds that
Formosa urgently needs additional UNRRA relief and rehabilitation sup-
plies of the types thus far received and that UNRRA activities should be
curtailed only, on the same basis as that applied to the Chinese mainland.
THE AMERICAS
10. PERU: APRA leader minimizes Talara brawl--The leader of Peru's
strong APRA party, Haya de la Torre' has told US Ambassador Cooper
that he feels the recent "incident" at Tala.ra between US Army and Peru-
vian Naval personnel (see Daily Summary of 7 August, item 17) should
be minimized and not be permitted to influence consideration of "larger
affairs.'
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