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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006000010078-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 2, 2001
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: April 1, 1949
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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GENERAL
1. Polish withdrawal of Spanish case from UN agenda--US
Embassy Warsaw believes that the recent Polish attempt
to withdraw the Spanish item from the General Assembly
agenda is a Soviet-directed tactic. The Embassy considers
that the Polish motives are to: (a) narrow the field of dis-
cussion in the General Assembly, thereby permitting con-
centration of propaganda attacks against the Atlantic Pact;
and (b) preserve the present situation between Spain and the
Atlantic Pact signatories. The Embassy further points out
that if the western powers seize the initiative in the Spanish
case, the USSR can claim that their motive is to pave the
way for Spain's adherence to the Atlantic Pact and that such
preparations reveal the aggressive and anti-UN character
of the Pact.
NEAR EAST-AFRICA
2. PALESTINE: UN efforts seen blocked by Israeli attitude-- S
US Representative Ethr a conclu es, in a remew of Me
work of the UN Palestine Conciliation Commission to date,
that Israeli cooperation with the Commission is unlikely
unless the UN and its member states are willing to back the
Commission as an agency for facilitating a settlement of all
outstanding issues. Ethridge considers that the Israelis
have no respect for either the Commission or the Arab states
and are apparently convinced that Israel can progress only
by military means. Ethridge comments that in view of Israeli
intransigence the Commission has had as much success with
the Arabs as might be expected.
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3. BURMA: Shift to extreme leftist government l ly-According
to US Embassy Rangoon, the Burmese Government party (thn
Anti-Fascist Peoples' Freedom League) has publicly indicated
its willingness to yield power to a "leftist" group. The Emltassy
believes that the insurgent Peoples' Volunteer Organization
(PVO) will now either enter a coalition with the Government
party or replace the present Government.
(CIA Comment: CIA believes that the formation of a
government strongly influenced or dominated by the PVO is
quite likely. Such a government would be far more leftist than
the present regime and would probably take a strong anti-US
line.)
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