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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100060074-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 74
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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GENERAL
1. US ur
es UK and Canadian pressure for Kashmir
settlement--
Secretary of State Acheson has informed the Canadian and
British Foreign Ministers of his concern over a possible stale-
mate in India-Pakistan negotiations on the Kashmir issue, and
has urged them to raise the problem with. she two Dominions
during the conference of Commonwealth Foreign Ministers
beginning on 9 January in Ceylon. The Secretary urged the
two Foreign Ministers to use their influence to impress India,
which has been less cooperative than Pakistan, with the
necessity of continuing negotiations "on a real give and take
basis" until a satisfactory solution is reached. The Secretary
also informed the British and Canadians that he planned to
66emphasize this point'' on 9 January with the Indian and
Pakistani Ambassadors to the US
FAR EAST
agrees that mines have been laid but seriously doubts whether
these initial mines will be efficient either in design or place-
ment or will remain in position against the strong currents.
Naval Attache in Shanghai reports that ri s naval authori=
ties in Formosa and Hong Kong assume that the Chinese
Nationalist Navy has laid approximately twenty mines of
Chinese manufacture in the Yangtze estuary, The Attache
CHINA: Nationalist mines in Yangtze estuary--The US
State Dept. review completed
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