Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

DEPARTMENT OF STATE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON November 20, 1946 m SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS UNITED In discussing with a member of our Delegation the proportion NATIONS of United Nations expenses to be contributed by each member, a Soviet representative pointed out the difficult economic position of his country. He added that he thought that by 1949 the USSR would be prepared to carry a substantial part of the cost of the United Nations. Our Delegation was informed by another Soviet representative that it would probably not be possible to hold the next General Assembly session in Moscow because of the very severe housing shortage. CHINA Although Chou En-Lai, the Chinese Communist negotiator, told General Marshall he was leaving Nanking for Yenan for instruc- tions and that his trip should not be interpreted as action on his part to break off negotiations, he told US correspondents that his return to Yenan constitutes termination of negotiations. GREECE Ambassador MacVeagh reports that foreign complicity in fomente ing Greek internal disorders is clearly and increasingly indicated and that Greece's difficulties in maintaining order and security necessary for the rehabilitation of its northern provinces is likely soon to prove insuper= able. He believes the possibility exists that growing anarchy may result in a Communist move to split North Greece from the rest of the country. THE We plan to inform the Dutch that we consider the prompt ratifi- NETHERLANDS cation by the Netherlands Government of the agreement reached with the Indonesians as essential in order to prevent hardening of the attitude of extrenist elements in Indonesia and increasing difficulty of Indonesian negotiators in obtaining full support for the agreement. UK Foreign Office officials believe large scale warfare in Indonesia would re- sult if the Dutch rejected the agreement. POLAND The leader of the Polish Labor Party has informed our Charge in Warsaw that the present stage of the Sovietization of Poland is comparable to the period when the Soviets were gaining power in Russia at the beginning of the Russian Revolution. He contemplates advising his fol- lowers confidentially to support Mikolajczyk but he believes Mikolajczyk may be forced to boycott the forthcoming elections. DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979 By NLT- He NARS, Date 11-12-to