prove useful when reviewing the basic papers on Soviet strategic interests and intentions. Continuing, MR. HAYTER said that it was also desirable to discover the reason for the withdrawals of Russian troops from Austria eastwards across Hungary which had been reported, and he also asked whether it would be possible to obtain any information, negative or positive, of possible troop concentrations in Hungary and Roumania directed against Yugoslavia. BRIGADIER BOUCHER said that it was possible that the Russians intended to withdraw their troops from Austria, but they were unlikely to do so unless the Western Powers withdrew their troops.