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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100070038-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Sequence Number: 38
• Content Type: REPORT

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GENERAL
1. UN sentiment regarding action against China--The US dele-
gation at the UN, in an assessment of reaction in the UN to
the US proposal for condemning the Chinese Communists as
aggressors in Korea, reports that the US proposal has already
been approved in' principle by most Latin American nations
and by several other states. The delegation adds that the
Commonwealth., countries, most of the Asian-Arab group,
and several Western European nations remain unconvinced
of the usefulness or desirability of condemning aggression
or imposing sanctions against China on the grounds either
that UN members lack the means to follow through effec-
tively or that the proposed measures will not hurt the war-
making ability of the Chinese Communists nor deflect their
aggressive intentions. Many delegates.feel.that condemnatory
action would provoke the Chinese Communists to new aggres-
sive moves, or at least cement their dependence on Moscow.
The delegation notes, however, that US acquiescence in the
intermediate step of adopting the cease-fire group's supple-
mental report should help win support for the condemnatory
resolution.
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FAR EAST
3. BURMA: Pro-US sentiment increasing--US Embassy Rangoon
estimates that anti-Communist sentiment in Burma is stronger
than ever before, despite discouragement over UN military
reverses in Korea and Commonwealth talks of appeasement
and compromise. According to the Embassy, the "softening"
British stand in the Far East has led the Burmese to look to
the US as their only source of assistance to meet aggression.
The Embassy citi-s as the most important factors preventing
all-out Burmese cooperation with the West: (a) internal military
weakness; (b) fear that the US is not yet prepared for all-out
war; and (c) a desire to prevent Burma's becoming a second
Korea.
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