Soviet Interest in Micronesia Cia Memo 1946

From Habele Institute

Author(s) Unknown (1946). Soviet Interest in Micronesia Cia Memo 1946 (Report).

Abstract: "...Soviet interest in Micronesia--The Naval Attache in Moscow reports that active Soviet interest in the final disposition of the Micronesian Islands is foreshadowed by a recent article in the "Soviet Journal of World Economics and World Politics." The article emphasized (a) the strategic importance of Micronesia in the maintenance of a stable peace, and (b)the danger these islands had presented when in the hands of aggressive powers such as Germany and Japan. The Naval Attache comments that this is the first public statement he has seen which indicates "the plan of propaganda against the US as an aggressive imperialist power..."