CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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21 March 1953
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00,4 Yugoslav officials consider action against Albania untimely (page 3)e
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Britain to ask European cooperation in liberalizing global trade
(page 4).
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2. Yugoslav officials consider action against Albania untimely.
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Josef Djerdja, one of the top Yugoslav Foreign
Office officials, has emphasized to the American
Embassy in Belgrade that there have been no
Yugoslav military movements near the Albanian
border. He stated that Yugoslavia strongly opposed any action which
would lend support to Cominform charges of aggressive intentions toward
Albania,
According to Djerdja, there is no reason to
believe that Hoxha's control over the country has weakened since Stalin's
death. He told the American Charge that while the collapse of the regime
was inevitable because of deteriorating economic conditions and increas-
ing popular discontent, the time for this event "was not in sight."
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Comment.- There is no reliable evidence
that Yugoslavia is planning ariy overt actions against Albania, 0
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3. Britain to ask.European cooperation in liberalizing global trade:
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the Exchequer Butler, in addressing the
Organization for European Economic Coopera-
tion on 23 March, plan to ask the European
countries to consider their own problems within the context of a "one
world" economic system aimed at freeing both trade and currencies
as widely as possible.
Butler will propose an immediate study of
the implications of the convertibility of other currencies as well as
sterling with a view to the subsequent relaxation of Britain's restric-
tions on trade with the Continent. He also will recommend considera-
tion of revamping both the European Payments Union and the OEEC to
permit a wider multilateral payments system.
Comment.- These statements are aimed at
reassuring the European countries about British trade plans, but Italy
and France in particular are more interested in immediate relief from
the burden of Britain's import restrictions.
In conversations with the Commonwealth,
.European countries and the United States, Britain is evidently seeking
the widest possible exchange of views before committing itself on its
own "new" trade policies,
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