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DECLASSIFIED TOP SECRET E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or OF Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1872 NARS Date 7-22-72 DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON June 29, 1945 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Subject: Current Foreign Developments EAC Approves Control Machinery for Austria. EAC has approved the final text of the agreement on control machin- ery for Austria. Winant transmits the amendments made to the basic UK draft of January 25. SAC Disturbed Over US Withdrawal. SAC has told Kirk that he is much disappointed with General McNarney's state- ment on arriving in the US that by the end of this year except for a US division in Venezia Giulia only 2,500 US troops will be left in Italy. SAC asked whether there was any possibility of a change in US redeployment policy and whether the US would not retain on the Continent "a con- siderable number" of troops for some time or at least until all the major problems arising from the war have been fully settled. Kirk said that he had no further information on this subject but in any event considered it one for the highest level. SAC said that Churchill would take up with the President "with great vigor" the urgent desirability of leaving substantial US forces in Italy and elsewhere on the Continent. The Chief Commissioner of AC Italy has strongly recom- mended that at least five Allied divisions be kept in Italy, plus whatever administrative or service units are needed for redeployment

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