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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Records of the Naval Aide to the President (Truman Administration)
State Department Briefs Files
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Tuck, S. Pinkney (Somerville Pinkney), 1891-1967
Smith, Walter Bedell, 1895-1961
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON
January 24, 1947
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
UNITED
We have authorized our Representative to intimate to the British
NATIONS
that if they insist the Security Council hear the statement of
their case on the Corfu Straits incidents even if the Albanian
representatives have not arrived in New York and then ask that the Council
adjourn, we are likely to state our belief that as a general rule a nation
complained against before the Council should be permitted adequate time to
prepare its case and transport its representatives to participate in the
Council's discussion.
EGYPT
Since the Egyptians have rejected all British alternative pro-
posals on the future status of the Sudan and the British have
rejected all Egyptian counter proposals, the Egyptian Government is reported
to believe that the only way to break the deadlock on the Anglo-Egyptian
treaty revision negotiations is to bring in a third party. Ambassador Tuck
reports that many qualified Egyptians are skeptical as to the success of
an
appeal to the United Nations but believe Egypt can and will bow more grace-
fully to an international decision than to a British demand.
GREECE
In discussing the United Nations commission to investigate in-
cidents along the Greek border, Ambassador Smith states that it
is Greece's misfortune that her northern frontier should involve the local
pretentions of small neighbors which conform so neatly to the imperialistic
objectives of their mighty patron. He adds that it is difficult to perceive
from Moscow how any lasting solution to the problem can be hoped for so long
as these neighbors remain satellites in the Moscovite constellation and the
latter is in a position to press for its ancient and everpresent ambition
of access to the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean to be achieved by out-
flanking Turkey and establishing effective physical control of the Dardanelles.
USSR
Embassy Moscow reports that if the Soviet authorities are build-
ing up food reserves, as apparently they are, at the cost of un-
doubted suffering and some real starvation among the Soviet masses, the
explanation may lie in one or all of the following considerations: 1) hyper-
caution of Soviet leaders; 2) reserve supply needs of Soviet armed forces;
3) utilization of food for political purposes abroad.
The Embassy adds that it would be fair to conclude from reading
a recent Soviet communique that the Soviet economic plan for 1946 was ful-
filled in its most important parts, excluding possibly agriculture. However
the government's statistics do not give a balanced picture and gloss over or
omit mention of at least some of the darker sides of the picture.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
By NLT- He NARS, Date 11-12-10