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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
NEW WAR DEPARTMENT BUILDING
21st and VIRGINIA AVENUE, N. W.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
26 February 1947
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
The British Government has in recent months displayed a
nominally independent attitude in foreign relations in contrast
to its previous close collaboration with the US on practically
all international issues. Evidences of this independent approach
include:
a. A reluctance to join or parallel the US in
making formal representations to the USSR or Soviet-
dominated governments concerning developments in
Eastern Europe.
b. Occasional lack of British support in the
UN for US proposals on such issues as control of atomic
energy and trusteeship of Pacific islands.
C. Friendly British gestures toward the USSR, such
as Field Marshal Montgomery's Moscow mission and the
British invitation for a visit to England by a Soviet
parliamentary delegation.
The immediate causes of this independent attitude of the
British Government are the need to regain public confidence in the
face of domestic difficulties, and the desire to quiet left-wing
criticism. Criticism by leftist members of Parliament and the
British Trades Union Congress, which is the mainstay of the Labor
Party, that the Government is not seeking an understanding with
the USSR and is blindly pro-US, has been a source of embarrassment
and concern to Foreign Minister Bevin. This criticism has been
especially effective when combined with growing popular resentment
toward the austerity standard of living and decreasing British
international prestige. The internal crisis caused by the recent
cold wave intensified public dissatisfaction with the progress of
the Government's economic program. Although this program still
has overwhelming support, there is a growing feeling that it is
not being effectively executed. The Government is therefore urgent-
ly impelled for domestic reasons to regain its prestige by a show
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
CIA BOD 5100.00, 1981
PR NLT 79.24
By NLT- HC NARS, Date 4-15-11 SECRET
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