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Ext 6116/46(S) 'Secret Weekly Political Intelligence Summaries, nos 356-416, August 1946-November 1947' [87r] (173/978)
The record is made up of 1 file (478 folios). It was created in 6 Sep 1946-14 Nov 1947. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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10648-410 34267
B
THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OP HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
SECRET
17366
5957/6/405
Weekly Political Intelligence Summary
No. 410
Foreign Office, Copy N? 90
(Research Department),
24th September, 1947.
This document is SECRET : as such it is
intended for the personal information of author
ised recipients only and must on no account be
communicated in whole or in part to anyone else
Contents
The passages side-lined in black are GUARD
Europe—
European Economic
Co-operation Con-
Page
Europe (contd .)—
South-Eastern Europe ...
Page
13
ference ...
Germany ...
1
3
Middle East ...
16
Czechoslovakia ...
Soviet Union
5
6
Far East
. . • -L
19
Scandinavia
7
United States
21
France
8
Latin America
23
Switzerland
10
United Nations
23
Italy
11
German Trade
26
A special article on German Trade will be found
on page 26.
EUROPE
SPECIAL ARTICLE
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION CONFERENCE
The solitary man, said Aristotle, is either
a God or a beast, and the same is true of the
solitary nation. Except with the fortunate
few, “ autarchy ” means a ceaseless strug
gle for a bare living, interdependence alone
can make life human.
After the second World War, large areas
of Europe, where more men lived than could
live of their own, found themselves cut off
from part of their normal sources of food
and raw materials. Russia had curtained
off Eastern Germany and the greater part
of Eastern Europe. South-East Asia was
largely in chaos, and because rice exports
from Burma had ceased, grain, which would
normally have gone to Europe, had to be
diverted to India. Great Britain in par
ticular had sold the investments she had
made in the countries which supplied her
with food and raw materials. Europe her
self had experienced the devastation of
war, and a vast reduction in her shipping.
Thus, with lessened resources she found
herself dependent on the countries of the
Western Hemisphere.
At first, thanks to the generous assistance
of the United States and others, and of
U.N.R.R.A. combined with the great efforts
of the European countries themselves, con
ditions began to improve; but supplies of
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This file contains a set of Weekly Political Intelligence Summaries published by the Foreign Office. The summaries are numbered, and begin from 356 at the back of the file, and end with number 416 at the front. The weekly reports contain military and political intelligence spanning all theatres of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath, and are divided in to sections by geographic region.
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 480; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Ext 6116/46(S) 'Secret Weekly Political Intelligence Summaries, nos 356-416, August 1946-November 1947'
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- front, front-i, 2r:127v, 128ar:128av, 128r:148v, 148ar:148av, 149r:167v, 167ar:167av, 168r:173v, 174ar:174av, 174r:253v, 254ar:254av, 254r:304v, 305ar:305av, 305r:316v, 317ar:317av, 317r:345v, 346ar:346av, 346r:405v, 406ar:406av, 406r:480v
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