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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
Schuman, Robert, 1886-1963
Franco, Francisco, 1892-1975
Caffery, Jefferson, 1886-1974
Bidault, Georges-Augustin, 1899-1983
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON
January 23, 1948
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
FRANCE
The French have presented notes to the US and UK governments
pointing out that the French plan for monetary reform, recently
submitted to the International Monetary Fund, was based on internal reasons
which the Schuman Government cannot now repudiate. If this proposal is
rejected, the French Government feels it would have no choice but to resign
or to proceed with its plan regardless of IMF action.
SPAIN
Despite some opposition, the French Cabinet has authorized Bidault
to proceed with negotiations for a gradual reopening of the French-
Spanish frontier. Bidault has assured Ambassador Caffery that this affair
will be handled very gradually so that the Franco regime will not be able to
claim a significant diplomatic victory.
The Spanish "republican government" in Paris is reported to be
unhappy over the present French attitude toward Franco and has hinted to French
officials that it may transfer the seat of this "government" to Belgrade.
GREECE
The chief of the British police mission in Greece has threatened to
recommend withdrawal of the mission unless the Greek Ministry of
Public Order can keep it fully informed concerning the actions and intentions
of the Greek police forces.
IRAQ
Our Ambassador in Cairo reports that the rejection of the pending
Anglo-Iragi treaty has dealt a body blow to the British plan to
conclude military alliances with all of the Arab countries and has diminished
prospects for a resumption of negotiations between the UK and Egypt for a new
treaty.
Meanwhile the Iraqi delegation in London expresses confidence that
it can straighten out the situation on its return to Baghdad and secure Iragi
acceptance of the treaty. They feel that members of the Iraqi Government
were panicked by student rioting and allowed a minority opposition to override
them.
DECLASSIFIED
E.0. 12005, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guidaline, June 12, 1979
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