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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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Childs, James Rives, 1893-1987
Schuman, Robert, 1886-1963
Caffery, Jefferson, 1886-1974
Bidault, Georges-Augustin, 1899-1983
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON
June 3, 1948
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
FRANCE
Ambassador Caffery reports that the chances of the
government's surviving the Assembly debate on the
German agreements do not look good at this juncture and as a result
Foreign Minister Bidault is very unhappy about having agreed to go
along with the US and UK. There is open hostility among most parlia-
mentary groups, based on the traditional French fear of Germany, while
some of the Socialists believe a final approach should be made to the
USSR before going ahead on western Germany. Almost the entire French
press has blasted Bidault in particular and the Schuman Government in
general for the London agreements.
MIDDLE EAST
Minister Childs in Jidda agrees in general with the
analysis of the British Foreign Office concerning the
tenuous position of the various Arab governments. He reports that
there is genuine concern in Saudi Arabia over what is considered the
instability of the social fabric in Egypt and particularly in Iraq.
Childs feels that the Arab people are now in a. desperate frame of
mind and that their leaders are being swept along by the pressure of
a rising tide of bitterness at what the people consider the cynical
disregard of their rights.
INDONESIA
Our representatives in Batavia report that the situ-
ation between the Dutch and the Indonesians has reached
a point of extreme tension with the outbreak of renewed military acti-
vity likely as a result of the virtual stalemate in present negotia-
tions and the strong reactions provoked by the reported Soviet-Republican
agreement to exchange consuls. Many responsible Dutch officials feel
that force is the only procedure understood by the natives, while the
Republican leaders distrust the Dutch motives and will now resort to
military action rather than make any further concessions.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
By NLT- He
NARS, Date 11.13.to