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Records of the Naval Aide to the President (Truman Administration)
State Department Briefs Files
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Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964
Key, David M. (David McKendree), 1900-1988
Gottwald, Klement, 1896-1953
Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970
Briggs, Ellis O. (Ellis Ormsbee), 1899-1976
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OFFICE OF
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
DECLASSIFIED
WASHINGTON
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982
September 17, 1951
By
PEB NLT, Date 9-5-85
P S E € R E T
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
FRANCE
Our Embassy in Paris reports that the first
French public reactions to the Washington
Foreign Ministers decisions regarding a German defense contribution
have been basically favorable. It was to be expected that the Commu-
nists and the followers of General De Gaulle would attack the decisions.
The Embassy states that it is significant that the question of the size of
the basic unit of the European Defense Force, which at one time threatened
to be a major contentious issue, appears to be passed over lightly as a
mere detail. That real debate on a European Defense Force is about to
begin, even if it does not reach the floor of the Assembly until November,
is clearly indicated by the violence of the Gaullist attacks along the double
line of 1) the surrender of French sovereignty and 2) the procedural issue
of the alleged violation of parliamentary prerogatives. The Embassy com-
ments that the coincidence of the Gaullist and Communist lines of attack is
bound to discomfit both parties as the debate unfolds.
CZECHOSLOVAKLA
Ambassador Briggs reports from Prague that
the Belgian Minister there, in a conversation
with Czechoslovak President Gottwald and Foreign Minister Siroky, cited
the Oatis case as an obstacle to good relations between Czechoslovakia
and the West. Although both Gottwald and Siroky denounced Oatis as a
spy, the Belgian Minister gained the impression that the Czechs are con-
siderably disturbed by recent developments.
BURMA
Ambassador Key in Rangoon has been given by
the British Ambassador there a summary of the
latter's recent conversations with the Burmese Foreign Minister and
Prime Minister concerning the Chinese Nationalist troops on Burmese
soil. The Foreign Minister told the British Ambassador that there had
been heated Cabinet discussion of the advisability of an appeal to the United
Nations during which he personally had urged against such a step but had
thus far succeeded only in obtaining postponement of action. The Burmese
Prime Minister stressed that because of internal political reasons, the
Burmese Government had no alternative but to make an appeal to the
United Nations. He stated, however, that he would not take action until he
had received a reply to his letter to Indian Prime Minister Nehru on the
subject.