DAILY SUMMARY - 1946/06/22

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Daily Summary Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02578601
• Document Creation Date: September 11, 2018

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1. British to submit inde ndent draft treaci for Austria�llarriman
reports that e ritish Foreign (Vice, as a matter of tactics,"
is to submit its own draft treaty for Austria rather than support the
US draft. The two drafts "apparently will not vary greatly." garrima.n
comments that the Foreign Office evidently desires to avoid Leftist
criticism that British foreign policy "slavishly" follows US policy.
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9. ITALY: Monarchist2.1_,ot--Charge 'Fey has been informed by a
"generally reliable" source that (a) shortly before Umberto's de-
parture, a "serious plot" involving. high Army and Foreign Office
officials was "afoot in the Palace" to preserve the Monarchy by a
coup d'etat (including arrest of the Prime Minister and members of
the Cabinet); (b) the King was unaware of the plot "until the last
moment"; and (c) when the !Ing learned of the plot, he immediately
left Italy to avoid strife. 17ey fears that if the plot becomes known,
there may be a "purge" of the Monarchists and that the gap between
the Republicans and Monarchists may be widened, He adds that
Molotov may have had "vague reports" that "something serious" was
occurring in Monarchist circles.
3. OLAND: Measures to insure C-ov at victory
The US Consul in r oznan has been informed by members of the rolish
workers' (Communist) rarty that a Government victory in the refer-
endum will be insured by the following measures: (a) violence, in-
eluding shootings, will intimidate an estimated 307, of the electorate
into abstaining from voting; (b) members of the relish Army security
forces and the Citizens Militia will be ordered to vote several times;
and (c) personnel of Government-controlled factories and other organ-
izations will be marched in a body to the polls and will be given no
opportunity to mark their ballots before depositing theme (Blank ballots
are to be counted as affirmative votes -- see Daily Summary of 20 June,
item 7.)
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4 MIA:, British prepare for disorder�US Comraissioner Merrell in
New Delhi reports that the British military appear to be making
"extraordinary" preparations for "disorders which may occur,"
whether or not an interim Government is formed. Terrell "still"
believes that a Covernment will be formed with representatives of
both the Congress Fatly and the Muslim League.
5. AUSTRALIA: Dutch Minister publicly rebuked�Legation Canberra
reports that the strain in Australian-70utch relations, which have
gradually deteriorated as a result of the "Indonesian affair," was
made public on 20 June, 'when before Parliament the Australian rrime
Minister severely censured the Dutch Minister for the manner in
which he has conducted diplomatic negotiations,
TIM AMERICAS
C. BRAZIL: IhS assurances on Argentina�Acheson has instructed US
Embassy Brazil to assure the Brazilians that the US will not invite
Argentina into the hemisphere military pact before receiving proof
that Argentina "will meet her anti-Nazi coramitments." Lcheson
adds that the ITE position was made clear to Von der Becke during
their recent conversation.
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