SOCIALIST CONVENTION IN PRAGUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000200160010-5
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 17, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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Auth: DDA MEG. 77 1763
Date: By Y. COUNTRY Austria / e1e v a,n
SUBJECT Socialist Convention in Prague
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14 Dr. Julius Deutsch declared in the Arbeiterzeit of 13 December 1914.6
that the convention of the Social Democratic Parties of Czechoslovakia,
Poland, Romania, Austria, ulgaria, and teary wag 1h success since it
interrupted the isolation of the respective Socialist parties and opened
the way for further negotiations He std that the Sege lalist leaders dis-
cussed the reorganization of mutual trade., clearing of currency, and the
oarly easing of the present strict border controls which are blocking trade,
#Jover, he declared that the convention made a pointed effort to sidestep
the issue of collaboration with the Co unists?
25X1 X6 2 the Austrian delegation was faced with a
block of Socialist parties cooperatin ; with the Coxnmuniete and So'deets0
He thinks the convention we sponsored by the Soviet Union with the a
of putting pressure on the Austrian Socialists to cooperate with the
Austrian Communists. This aim was not achieved, for Deutsch told the
convention plainly that the Austrian Communists, if interested in the
unity of the le ist paarties, should join the Socialist Party.. This
statement elicited an attack by the Poles, and hence created a critical
irapasa0 The Czechs intervened, and the unity issue was dropped in favor
of economic questions.
3, From here on Deutsch noticed the friendly attitude on part of the Czechs
and the Hungarians. While they did not openly sy athi zer, they appeared
surprised and encouraged by the Austrian stand0
Deutsch also noticed that some of the Romanian and Polish delegates were
not in full agreement with their own spokesmen, whom. Deutsch called "poor
Communicta" o . however, the Bulgarian.. Roam an, and Polish delegations an
a whole wore clearly under Soviet orders,,
5. Deutsch felt that,althouch a comma political ground between the, Austriam
and the eastern Socialists could not be establlished, the meeting proved
that economic cooperation possible and desired by all.
60 The Italian Socialists sent Va]i ni. as an observer. Deutsoh predicts
that early contacts Y411 be established between the Austrian and Italian
Sc.? ialist parties.