Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

DEPARTMENT OF STATE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON August 28, 1946 SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS UNITED The Greeks have asked us to support their request for a 10 day 210 NATIONS postponement of the discussion in the Security Council of charges brought against them by the Ukraine. The British Foreign Office opposes discussion of the Ukrainian charges until after the Greek plebiscite on September 1. The Committee of Experts deferred a decision on whether the present government of Spain should have access to the International Court. France, Mexico, the USSR, and Poland favor exclusion. 051 - AUSTRIA Our authorities in Vienna believe it is extremely important from the standpoint of political and economic stability in Austria that we provide assistance in 1947 in addition to the funds needed to prevent disease and unrest in our occupation zone. 051 austria Erhardt reports that the Soviet controlled press in Austria is now busily creating the impression that the internationalization of the Danube is a new theory designed for capitalistic penetration by the US and UK at the expense of the economy and sovereignty of the Danube states. 051 EGYPT We are informing the Egyptians that we desire to raise our mission in Cairo to an Embassy and would welcome an exchange of Ambassadors. 051 / FRANCE Embassy Paris reports that the Soviet Ambassador in Paris informed the French that Molotov walked out during the ceremony marking the liberation of Paris because he thought he might have been better seated than he was, in view of the "leading role" which the USSR played in liberating France. 051 . GREECE The Greek Foreign Office is inclined to interpret the departure from Athens of the Soviet Ambassador at this time as intended to emphasize Soviet dissociation from the plebiscite being observed by the US and UK. 051 . IRAN During a conversation with our representative in Tabriz, the head of the Azerbaijan Government expressed no apprehension of an armed outbreak with the Central Government. DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guideline, June 2, 1979 By NLT- He NARS, Date 11-12-70