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State Department Briefs Files
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Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959
Dunn, James C. (James Clement), 1890-1979
De Gasperi, Alcide, 1881-1954
Bevin, Ernest, 1881-1951
Arab-Israeli conflict, 1948-1967
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
October 21, 1948
State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
By NLT-
We NARS, Date 11-13-to
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
INDONESIA
Following long conversations with Indonesian leaders,
our representative on the UN Good Offices Committee
reports that he believes negotiations can be resumed between the Dutch
and Indonesians by November 1, although with each side making initial
demands which may produce the threat of an imminent deadlock. While
our representative believes that the Republic leaders will be reason-
able in their approach, he points out that our representations to the
Dutch have so far failed to modify in any way the Netherlands demands,
which in fact have become more solidified as a result of the parlia-
mentary debates in The Hague.
MIDDLE EAST
In commenting on the recommendation that the Arab refugee
problem be turned over to the International Red Cross,
our delegation in Paris agrees that the handling of the problem could be
improved by the addition of personnel experienced in relief matters but
it has no information to indicate that a UN relief organization is ina-
ppropriate to the task if supplied with funds and supplies. Our delega-
tion feels that an appeal to governments for assistance is necessary
to a solution of the problem, and that this would be impossible if the
Red Cross had sole responsibility.
EGYPT
The Egyptian Foreign Minister has recently proposed to
British Foreign Minister Bevin that the two countries
settle their differences by the withdrawal of British troops from Egypt.
Bevin in reply stated that he considered bases in Egypt still necessary
for the defense of that country, which he regarded as a joint Anglo-
Egyptian responsibility. He proposed that the UK and Egypt arrange
technical defense talks in the same spirit as those of the Western Union
countries, with subsequent appropriate modifications of the 1936 treaty.
The Egyptian Ambassador in London has now been recalled to Cairo to dis-
cuss this proposal, though the Foreign Office is not optimistic that the
Egyptians will accept.
ITALY
Ambassador Dunn reports that Secretary Marshall's visit
to Rome has unquestionably had an extremely beneficial
effect on our present relations with Italy. Aside from favorable publi-
city concerning the visit, Marshall has apparently strengthened to a
considerable degree Premier de Gasperi's policy of orienting Italy with
the free democracies.