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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON March 24, 1948 SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS SPAIN Embassy Madrid has been authorized to express casually to top Spanish officials our disappointment at the entirely negative manner in which they have reacted to our proposals for a strengthening of US-Spanish relations. We feel that the present Spanish attitude is not conducive to any change in (1) the present US policy of refusing government credits to Spain, (2) the disinclination of European countries to include Spain in their cooperative efforts, or (3) the basic United Nations position on Spain. ITALY The British Foreign Office is increasingly inclined to believe that any action on raising the Italian application for UN membership at this time would at best have negligible election propaganda value in Italy and might in fact have the opposite effect, even impairing the good which has been done by the US-UK-French state- ment on Trieste. FRANCE Ambassador Caffery has been informed that the French intend to strengthen the troops along the French-Italian frontier until after the Italian elections, and possibly also along the French-Spanish frontier, on the hypothesis that any Communist offensive action in France might well be coordinated with Communist action in northern Italy and Spain. DENMARK The Danish Army and Navy have cancelled all leaves custom- arily granted over the Easter holiday as a precautionary move against any possible Soviet aggressive act. The Danes have assured our minister that any possible Soviet offensive would be met by all-out Danish military resistance. DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979 By NLT- He NARS, Date 11-13-to