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State Department Briefs Files
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NLT Noval Aide 134
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON
DE
E.O. 120
2
April 27, 1950
State Dept. Guide
arch 6, 1982
By DEB NLT, Date 5-13-85
T OF SECREI
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
JERUSALEM
Our Embassy in Moscow believes that the basic
motive for the USSR's reversal of its previous
position favoring internationalization of Jerusalem is the Soviet esti-
mate that a militant combination of Communist Arabs and Jews would
form the most effective instrument for the advancement of communism
in Israel and Arab Palestine. Our Embassy believes that the USSR
bases its approach to the Near East on the premise that withdrawal of
British power from Palestine and resultant tensions create favorable
conditions for the establishment of a "bi-national state" under Com-
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munist leadership, and that the internationalization of Jerusalem is
incompatible with this aim. Our Embassy also feels that the USSR
is counting on the opposition of other Arab states to Jordan and the
economic plight of the large Arab refugee group to keep the situation
"fluid. "
AUSTRALIA
We have instructed our Embassy in Canberra to
express to Australian Foreign Minister Spender the
grave US concern over the possibility of Australian intervention to
determine the future status of New Guinea. Spender is to be informed
that in view of the agreement reached at The Hague that the question of
the political status of Netherlands New Guinea should be determined
through negotiations between the United States of Indonesia and The
Netherlands, Australian intervention would not meet with UN or world
approval and might have results detrimental to the interests which
Australia is seeking to safeguard. The US considers itself committed
to solution of the New Guinea problem through negotiations between the
Indonesians and the Dutch, and, while we favor retention of some form
of Netherlands control in New Guinea, we feel that any disposition of the
area basically unsatisfactory to the Indonesians could jeopardize the
area's stability. Our Embassy is to tell Spender that should the issue
of Australian intervention be raised in the UN, we would not be able to
support the Australian action.
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