A file containing weekly minutes of the Committee on Policy towards Russia between April and July 1946. The file is concerned with policy towards the Soviet Union on a global scale, but main areas of discussion included a warning over a Soviet political and propaganda campaign against Britain in Germany and potential measures in response to it, with correspondence between the Foreign Office and the army in Germany and Austria; German political parties and their potential for resistance to communism; whether to allow Soviet trade representatives access to British-controlled territories in South East Asia, eventually advising the Colonial Office not to allow the representatives; countering the communist Tudeh party in Iran and Soviet influence elsewhere in the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent; and forthcoming peace treaties with and potential reparations payments from Germany and Italy.
- Collection ID
- FO371
- Countries
- Afghanistan Australia Austria China East Germany France India Iraq Italy Japan Iran Thailand United States of America West Germany
- Department Reference
- Code 38 file 5169 (to paper 9929)
- Document Type
- Meeting Minutes Memoranda Correspondence
- File Reference
- FO 371/56885
- Identifier
- 10.1080/cwee.fo371.056885
- Note
- Documents in this file were retained under Section 3(4) of the Public Records Act 1958, but put back in place on December 19, 1995.
- Pages
- 168
- Persons Discussed
- Orme Sargent
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Subject Countries
- Soviet Union
- Themes
- Second World War Aftermath International Relations