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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100040056-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2002
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: October 22, 1949
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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GENERAL
1. US-UK views on Italian Colonies question--US Ambassador
Jessup in New York reports that the British delegate to the
UN, in a review of all aspects of the-current status of the
Italian Colonies question, apparently agrees with the US that:
(a) the present sub-committee draft on Libya will present
no obstacle to the attainment of an Anglo-Cyrenaican defense
treaty; (b) the original US proposal regarding Eritrea has not
the slightest chance of being approved; (c) the US compro-
mise proposal for Eritrea is probably the only solution short
of postponement which could receive General Assembly ap-
proval. and at the same time be acceptable to Ethiopia; and
(d) a two-thirds majority vote in the Assembly for Italian
trusteeship for Somaliland hangs on the thinnest of margins,
(CIA Comment: CIA believes that in view of Foreign
Secretary Bevin s strong belief that the present sub-committee
draft on Libya would be prejudicial to British objectives in
Cyrenaica the British may not support the present text when
it comes up for vote in the full committee.)
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