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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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MacVeagh, Lincoln, 1890-1972
Douglas, Lewis W. (Lewis Williams), 1894-1974
Bevin, Ernest, 1881-1951
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
,
WASHINGTON
August 4, 1947
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
UNITED
The British Embassy has submitted a note from Bevin
KINGDOM
proposing immediate US-UK discussions on a high level
concerning the British economic position and its inter-
national implications. Meanwhile Bevin has given Ambassador Douglas
assurances, in response to our expression of serious concern over the
sudden decision on the reduction of UK forces in Greece and Italy, that
this move does not in any way imply a change in British foreign policy
and that the precise extent of troop reductions abroad has not definitely
been settled. Douglas finds that atmosphere in Britain tense. Members
of the Labor Party, while united, are apprehensive, and the present criti-
cal situation has led to a growth of anti-American sentiment.
It is intended that announcement of the troop reduc-
tion will be made only in the most general terms, and Bevin has indicated
a willingness to discuss further the exact implications of the move in
Greece and Italy. Ambassador MacVeagh considers the British decision to
withdraw troops from Greece "astoningly ill-timed and "little short of
catastrophic" since their presence in the north constitutes a deterrent
to possible Slavic moves. Ambassador Dunn reports that the Allied com-
manders in Italy are convinced that they are already at an irreducible
minimum on troop strength and that the situation in Venevia Guilia does
not warrant of any complacency.
AUSTRIA
The Austrian delegate to the Paris conference on
European reconstruction has been approached by the
Soviet Embassy with the demand that he make available to the Soviets
copies of all conference documents.
FRANCE
We are informing the French Government that we are
now prepared to give careful consideration to any
representations which it may wish to make with respect to the US-UK
proposals for a revised bizonal level of industry in Germany and with
respect to the management and control of the German coal industry. We
hope that the French will not raise questions about the level of industry
plan in the Paris conference.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
By NLT- HL
NARS, Date 11-12-10