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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006000050025-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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1. FRANCE: Cabinet crisis tai .deli debate on Ceram _-
Foreign Minister B fault has iE or ffi
that he will do his best to bring the German question to de-
bate in the Assembly before 10 June but can make no prom-
ises now. Bidault pointed out that the Government faces an
imminent crisis on the issue of subsidies for Catholic schools
and that there is general opposition on. the German question,
including opposition from his own Popular Republican Party
(MEP), the Socialists, and the Foreign Office. Caffery re-
ports that Maurice Schumann (leader of the MRP) fears that
the question of Catholic school subsidies may bring about a
parliamentary crisis which the Government may not survive
and believes that until this issue has been settled there is no
possibility that the Assembly will be able to debate the Ger-
man question. Caffery has learned from Premier Schuman's
"right hand man" that the Government hopes to forestall the
crisis and sfre gth.en its position by requesting the Assembly
to postpone debate on the school subsidy bin? until. its legality
can be passed upon by the Council of State.
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2. KOREA: Firm US-UST ncalicy recommended.--US Political
Adviser Jacobs expresses the view that it is. desirable for the
US to try to secure active participation by the United Nations
Temporary Commission on Korea (UN T C OK) in the formative
stages of the new Korean Government. Jacobs favors this
course because of his conviction that: (a) the Koreans are
more likely to take advice from the UN than from US officials;
(b) less fuel will be provided for Soviet propaganda charges
that the US is "running the Korean show" for its selfish inter-
ests; and (c) an i uential segment of the US public will support
a "Xorea program" if the UN participates. Jacobs believes
that although there may be difficulfles In dealing with the new
Korean National Assembly, the failn e of the US and the UN In
Korea will mean either war or the abandonment of Korea to
the USSR. Jacobs declares that this latter event "could only
mak a mockery" .of US policy in other theaters of the world.
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