CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1951/05/03

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• Document Creation Date: March 18, 2019
• Document Release Date: March 28, 2019
• Publication Date: May 3, 1951

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
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5. Egyptian Foreign Minister claims impasse in Anglo-Egyptian
defense talks threatens violence in Egypt (page 6).
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6. Comments on Indian move to defy UN in Kashmir (page 6).
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7. Iceland wants US troops to arrive on day pact is announced (page 7).
8. New "independent" Communist group challenges French Communist
Party (page 8).
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6. Egyptian Foreign Minister claims impasse in Anglo-Egyptian defense
tilEFIEFitens violence in-Egypt:
According to US Ambassador Caffery inCairo,
Egyptian Foreign Minister Salaheddin hati
indicated his untenable position in regard to
the Anglo-Egyptian defense talks. Salaheddin
told Caffery that while the students and inflammable public had so far
kept quiet, they would not do so indefinitely, and he did not want "fright-
ening explosions to occur" in Egypt "as are now taking place in Iran.
Salaheddin stated that the British hope to avoid replying to Egypt's
counter-proposals for at least two or three months, but that he him-
self cannot wait that long. If .the British reply is not received by early
June, Salaheddin plans to advise the Egyptian Prime Minister to break
off negotiations and denounce the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936.
Salaheddin added that if his advice at that time is not followed, he will
resign,
Comment: The untenable position of the Wafd
government has resulted largly from the fact that Egyptian officials
have publicly adopted an extreme position in regard to British evacua-
tion of the Suez Canal base and of the Sudan, even though they have
secretly indicated a more moderate position. Unless the UK offers
additional concessions to those they have already made, a dubious possi-
bility at best, Egypt will find it increasingly difficult to conceal the
actual nature of the Anglo-Egyptian impasse -- an impasse which has
been caused, in large part, by the conflicting purposes of the Egyptian
Government itself.
SOUTH ASIA
6. Comments on Indian move to defy UN in Kashmir:
On 1 May Crown Prince Karan Singh, the
puppet ruler of Indian-held Kashmir, issued an official proclamation
convening a Constituent 4ssembly to draw up a constitution for the
Kashmir State. This action, presumably undertaken at Indian
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instigation or at least with Indian consent, occurred just one day after
the appointment of Dr. Frank Graham as UN representative for the
NostiNnir problem and in open defiance of theUN Security Council --
wMch has feared that such an Assembly would act unilaterally to ratify
the State's accession to India and thereby further complicate the
Kashmir problem. The subject of accession was not mentioned in the
Crown Prince's proclamation, but it will probably arise during the
course of the Assembly meeting. The proclamation may therefore be
considered a reiteration of Kashmir and Indian rejection of the US-UK
Resolution on Kashmir, passed by the UN Security Council on
30 March 1951.
WESTERN EUROPE
7. Iceland wants US troops to arrive on day pact is announced:
US Legation in Reykjavik expected to have
the Icelandic Government's final acceptance
of the bilateral defense pact by noon on 2 May,
with the formal signing to follow shortly there-
after. The government desires that, as tenta-
tively arranged with the US Legation, the arrival of a contingent of
US troops should be timed for the day after the day of signature and
simultaneously with the publication of the basic agreement
Comment: The government's reason for
desiring that the arrival of US troops (numbering some� 200 or 300)
be timed with the publication of the agreement is to present its people
with tangible evidence of the protection the pact will afford to their
completely unarmed country.
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8. New "independent" Communist group challerliges French Communist
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A meeting of 300 to 400 miners, including
ex-Communists and leaders of the Communist-
directed General Confederation of Labor,
was held on 29 April to launch an "independent"
Communist movement which would embrace
all persons who have left the French Communist
Party. Charles Lemoine, a former member
of the French Communist Party central com-
Attee who left the party in 1945, presided over the meeting. This
French group, claiming to have already contacted the Italian Communist
deviationists, echoed their line that "national frontiers will be defended
against any and all aggressor" and announced that it would send a dele-
gation to the Rome congress of Italian Communist dissidents. Lemoine
asserts that the group is established in 30 of the 89 French departments.
The US Embassy in Paris estimates that this group of deviationists is
likely to develop into a cause of some embarrassment to the French.
Communist Party.
Comment This incipient movement has al-
ready drawn the public censure of French Communist Party officials,
who are seeking again to purge party ranks of those who do not whole-
heartedly support the party line. This movement has been reported to
be planning clandestine action within the party and the General Confedera-
tion of Labor in the hope of detaching members one by one. Only in
the unlikely event that some first-line Communists should join, would
the movement have any possibility of establishing a separate party.
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