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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100030038-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Sequence Number: 38
• Content Type: SUMMARY

AUG 1549
Approved For Release 2008/03/06: CIA-RDP78-01617AO06100030038-6
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GENERAL
FAR EAST
1. Stalin-Kirk interview - -in. a preliminary report of his
15 August conversation with Stalin, US Ambassador Kirk
in Moscow indicates that during a courteous interview
lasting 35 minutes the only substantive matters discussed
were Lend-Lease and the Voice of America. Stalin asserted
that the USSR would live up to its, responsibilities under
Lend-Lease and expressed the desire, regarding VOA., that
Kirk take up the matter with Foreign Minister Vishinsky.
2. PHILIPPINES: US "su port" for Southeast Asia union urged--
US Embassy Man a ?a to a report roan assli,30_r
Romulo, Philippine representative to the UN, that he has
succeeded in obtaining the support of all Philippine political
parties for calling a conference in Baguio to organize a Scuth
east Asia union. Romulo adds that he is now "sounding Out
the governments of India, .Australia,, New Zealand, Ceylon,
Burma, Pakistan and Siam concerning this proposal. Romulo
requests authorization from the Department of State to indicate
to these countries that the US "regards with sympathy the
efforts of the free countries of Southeast Asia to cooperate
more closely with one another in promoting their common
interests" and suggests that agreement to the proposal would
be facilitated if the envoys of the interested countries in
Washington were given some direct indication of such a US
attitude.
(CIA Comment: Romulo's proposal, designed. to
achieve economic, political and cultural cooperation in South-
east Asia, represents a limited and regional alternative to the
Pacific Union proposal, which was advanced during the recent
.iri .o-Chiang-Rhee discussions and which anticipated moth i
defense commitments.)
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