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    "ocrText": "TOP SECRET\nDECLASSIFIED\nE.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nDept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972\n-2-\nBy NLT-HLARE Date 6.2675\nin the Fifth Corps area in Austria resulting from the be-\nhavior of the Yugoslavs. Alexander stated that Yugoslav\nactivities could not be controlled without the use of\nforce and that open hostilities might occur at any moment.\nAlexander requested Eisenhower to arrange for certain\ntroop dispositions in the SHAEF area.\nRecommended Abolition of so-called Reich Governnent.\nGeneral Rooks who is now in Flensburg has urgently\nrecommended to SHAEF that the so-called acting Reich\nGovernment be abolished immediately and that its members,\nincluding Doenitz and Schwerin-Krosick, be arrested and\nheld for interrogation.\nBritish Representations Regarding Presence of French\nTrooms on Italian Territory. Acting on a telegram from\nAlexander to the CCS and without awaiting the reaction of\nthe Combined Chiefs, the British Foreign Office is inform-\ning the French of its concern over the continued presence\nof French troops on Italien territory.\nSyria and Lebanon - Critical Point Reached with\nFrench. With the arrival of a Fronch cruiser in Beirut\nthe INATIONAL SERVICE REGORDS\nThursday noon bringing a further battalion of French\ntroops, the Franco-Leventine problem seems to have reached\na point at which all parties concerned will have to take\ndefinite stands. A certain number of French- troops have\nbeen withdrawn a.s the others were brought in, and data\nfrom different-sources is confused. There appears little\ndoubt, however, that on balance the French forces will\nprove to have been considerably reinforced.\nA clash of some kind, perhaps only diplomatic but\npossibly extending to widespread disturbances, thus seems\nalmost inevitable. The Syrians and Lebanese have up to\nnot been waiting to see whether the French would actually\nreinforce, insisting that if so they would break off all\nnegotiations"
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