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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100020045-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: November 6, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1..,Views on Soyiet?pro osal' for CFM on Germany--US Embassy_
Moscow considers that the recent formal Soviet proposal for
a1 CFM meeting on Germany was made. primarily for propaganda
The Embassy-points out that the proposal is well
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anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, and the- Second World
Peace Congress, to be an important element in the world-wide
campaign to prove that. the USSR wants peace and the :US wants
war. The Embassy notes that the proposal concentrates on
demilitarization rather than on all major German problems and
comes at a delicate period in the -development of French en-
dorsement'of "the -rearmament`of Germany..
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2. INDOCHINA: UK to urge more power for Bao Dai--According
to US Embassy London, British Commissioner General for
Southeast Asia MacDonald will visit the highest available
French Government official in Paris to express his view that
the only possible solution to the Indochina problem is to accel-
erate the transfer of power ,to. Emperor Bao Dai. MacDonald
is making the visit at,th.e specific request of the Foreign Office,
which shares his views on Indochina..
Tonkin situation described as not hopeless--US Consul
Blancke in Hanoi expresses the opinion that the French now
appear to have "more than an even chance" of holding North
Vietnam. In support of this view, Blancke points out that the.
Viet Minh evidently lacked the power to keep rolling and. hazards
e guess that the French will win the reinforcements race.
DIA and DOS review(s) completed.
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The Consul concurs in the recently-expressed opinion of
the French Commanding General in Tonkin that the next
12 months will be critical.
mi1ita:-?y field reports indicate a total of 35,000 Chinese Com-
munist troops are currently engaging UN forces in Korea.).
US intelligence also reports that 13 hostile Yak aircraft, which
could only have come from Manchurian fields, were observed
over Nor t:h Korea on 5 November.
3. KOREA. Chinese Communist strength in North Korea--
US Embassy Counsellor Drumright in Seoul transmits the
estimate of US military field intelligence that there are now
between 25,000 and 27,000 Chinese Communist troops engag-
ing US forces in the northwest sector in Korea, and that a
Chinese Communist force approximating divisional strength
is opposing UN forces in the northeastern sector. (Latest
f)1'ssension in ROK National Asset--US Embassy
Counsellor Drumr. fight expresses, the opinion that the over-
whelming rejection of Paek as Prime Minister by the ROK
Assembly can be attributed mainly to selfish political maneu-
vering and to deep-seated hostility toward President Rhee, As
a further measure of the Assembly hostility for Rhee, Drum-
right reports that a resolution calling for the resignation of
the entire Rhee Cabinet was presented to the Assembly and,
after two indecisive votes, reconsideration was deferred until
6 November.
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