Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

DEPARTMENT OF STATE two OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON P October 7, 1946 SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS UNITED The USSR has requested the inclusion on the forthcoming General NATIONS Assembly's agenda of the question of the presence of the armed forces of United Nations members in territories of non-eneny countries. This is apparently the same question which the Security Council recently decided not to include on its agenda. ALBANIA Our representative believes any decision by Albania to direct its present military activities toward aggression against Greece depends upon what the USSR wants done. BULGARIA General Robertson and Barnes agree the time has come to accept as fact and act upon it that the Allied Control Commission in Bulgaria is in no sense a tripartite commission but an instrument of Soviet policy of aggression and spheres of influence. FRANCE Ambassador Caffery reports that an uncertain but major factor in the current French situation is believed to be the deep disillusionment of Trench workers with the results of three-party govern ments since the liberation. However, high French officials discount current rumors that the Communists are planning to take over the government by insurrectionary methods. TRAN Soviet insistence has forced Prime Minister Qavam to hold elections in Iran immediately. Qavam was obliged to honor an undertaking he made with Soviet representatives to submit the proposed oil agreement with the USSR to the Iranian legislature. The Shah has signed the election decree but fears the new legislature will be hostile to him and to the western democracies. THE President Roxas has informed Ambassador McNutt that he believes PHILIPPINES it will be impossible to secure the approval of the Philippine Congress to a base agreement with the US involving the retention of areas in the Manila port area. POLAND The Secretary is opposed to granting Poland further financial assistance for the development of its coal mining industry unless we obtain absolute guarantees that a reasonable proportion of Folish coal exports will be allocated to countries west of the iron curtain. DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979 By NLT- We NARS, Date 11-12-10