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WEEKLY SUMMARY
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
FRANCE
Soviet Pressure The Soviet Union continues to exploit
French defeatism and fears of aGermany. Apparently convinced that France is the weakest link tn western European defensive planning, the USSRhosen France as the place to concentrate Coinmunist attacks upon the European recoverytepped up its propaganda campaign against western plans for Germany and themplied that the Spanisl Pyrenees, rather than the Rhine, would be the US "frontier' In Europe;ndirectly proposed,overnmental level, that France renounce the western bloc in order to insure world peace and French security.ime when France's Internal problems portend tbe fall of the Queullle Government and the rise of De Gaulle, the Kremlin can be expected to continue its cynical exploitation of French fears and prejudices which has already caused many Frenchmen of varying political convictions to consider critically the implications of France's alignment with the west.
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Communist Labor Soviet determination to throw the full,
world-wide resources of Communist labor against the European recovery program Is manifested by Soviet support of the ntriklng French coal miners. The Communist-controlled Secretariat of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) has called for "tangibleIn support of tbe French miners. Simultaneously, the Soviet, Polish, Czechoslovak, Yugoslav, and Rumanian labor movements have0 francs. This unprecedented public aid, which actually Is insignificant In comparison to the total clandestine Soviet support of the French strike, clearly demonstrates the all-Incluslvcness of the Soviet effort to sabotage the European recovery program. The WFTU appeal, directed primarily to western labor, may draw minor contributions from left-wing labor groups In Italy, the UK, and the US. However, the apocal will be flatly rejected by British and US national labor organizations which support the European recovery program and will hasten their formal withdrawal from WFTU.
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