INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS GROUP WEEKLY SUMMARY NO. 23

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01090A000100020029-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: June 7, 1949
• Content Type: PERRPT

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CIA-RDP79-01090A001000Q029,`
I ITT, Nom' TTONAL ORGANIZATIONS GROUP
_VV4'KLY NO. 23
For week ending 7 June 1949
The International 1,Veek
Volume '
The Council of Fc.reign Vi sisters, deadlocked over Berlin,
is about to discuss tha3 Berman peace treaty, a pos.'ible spring-
board for rl. new Soviet propag,-.nda demarche. In the Kashmir case,
both India and Pakista:~A have Jre jeated UN truce propoaanl3. Mean-
while, the, Palestine peace tsr.:tks at Lausanne are at t virtual
standstill., with both aides unwilling to yield an inc'i.
A Eur'a Bran concern o?rer 1:.AP. There are increasing signs of
concern in 1 uropo over i;he Fate of the US Military Aid PA`ogram
(MAP). Leaders in Belg'i um, i'ranao and Norway have already ex-
py essed fears that failure )f the Congress to enact PAP daring
this session would dishearten anti-Communist elements by c7eatir~
confusion and uncertainty; c: oncerning the firmness of US pos. tcie
Both Prime Minister Queul.l: a and Foreign AMinaster Schuman h-.:ve
indicated strong French concern over US legislative delays vw-,.th
respect; to the Atlantic Past and MAP. Moreover, the BrusselV
Pact powers believe tha?'j : would be useless to carry out plaune,1
increa.3es in their a.rme.:iex -~ programs without the essential pry-
requisite of 11AP. Accordi-ag to Prime Minister Spaak, these
powers have been gearing tkisir preparedness plans to forthcom` n
US military aid and, in thi. absence of MAP, Belgium, for example?
could lot be expec-ad to v,rte increased military credits since
their value, without US sus,port, would be so small as to be
militarily insigrifscant.
The current procrastin.tion of some signatories in rat1.fyir.
the Atlantic pact in part r