Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12083, Sec. 3-402 DEPARTMENT OF STATE State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY By NLT- He NARS, Date 11-12-H WASHINGTON September 12, 1946 SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS UNITED The Secretary has asked us to inform Secretary General Lie that NATIONS he will certainly not request any further postponement of the General Assembly meeting beyond October 23. The Secretary adds that there is no good reason why the Paris Conference cannot finish its work by October 15. The United Nations officials report that as of yesterday, 21 members had agreed to opening the Assembly session on October 23. No opposition to this date has as yet been reported. CHILE The President-elect of Chile has unofficially asked us to send a special representative to his inauguration on November 4. Ambassador Bowers supports this request, adding that consideration should be given to the advisability of sending an aircraft carrier to a Chilean port at the same time. HUNGARY A source close to the Prime Minister has informed our representative in Budapest that there are over 200,000 Red Army troops in Hungary at present but that Soviet plans call for the reduction of this force to 50,000 upon conclusion of the peace treaty. ICELAND The Prime Minister of Iceland has repeated his promise to our representatives that if the Communists in Iceland refuse to accept a reasonable base agreement with the US, then he will make the issue one on which his Cabinet will stand or fall. The Prime Minister considers our present proposals reasonable. ITALY We agree with a British proposal that the Allied Commission for Italy be abolished as soon as French and Soviet agreement to this action can be obtained, UNITED A British Foreign Office official has informed our Embassy that KINGDOM the UK has concluded an agreement on trade matters with the USSR but that there is no assurance the UK will reap any real benefits from the agreement in the way of increased imports of essential raw materials. USSR A member of the British Labor Party delegation which recently visited Moscow has told Harriman that Stalin and other Soviet officials seemed obsessed by the fear that reactionary governments would return to power in other countries including Britain. The British visitor was impressed by the number of pictures of Molotov he saw in Soviet factories and elsewhere