Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

DEPARTMENT OF STATE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON November 15, 1946 SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS UNITED The Military Staff Committee has accepted unanimously a com- NATIONS promise statement on the purpose of the United Nations armed forces. This decision led to a second unanimous vote to con tinue immediately with the discussion in the subcommittee of all aspects of the question of basic principles governing the organization of the United Nations forces. The French Delegation feels strongly that the five permanent members of the Security Council should agree among themselves that they may voluntarily abstain from voting on substantive questions without such abstentions being considered a veto. Present indications are that the UN committee will decide that our share of the expenses of the United Nations is 49.89%. ALBANIA Our representative in Tirana reports that the Albanians have done everything possible to humiliate our diplomatic mission and obstruct its departure. FRANCE Caffery reports that a number of people in Paris are saying that the French Communists, despite their strength, do not seize full power in France because: (1) the French Communist leaders believe it is in the Party's best interest to aim at the final conquest of power in respecting at least the outward forms of legality and (2) since in any event Moscow will call the tune, the international aspect is more decisive than the French internal situation and Moscow will not permit the French Communists at this juncture to do anything that might bring on foreign intervention. In other words, had we not the atomic bomb the Communists might endeavor to take over France without much delay. Caffery adds that a number of Frenchmen believe it is not in the Krenlin's plans to move the Iron Curtain to the Atlantic in the near future since it is more important for them to gain con- trol of Near Eastern petroleum supplies and they do not want to precipitate anything in any part of the world which might interfere. GERMANY All evidence available to our political adviser in Berlin indicates that for some days there have been no further Soviet deportations of German workers presumably as a result of press criticism and quadripartite discussions in both the Berlin Kommandatura and the ACC Coordinating Committee. DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979 By NLT- He NARS, Date 11-12-10