CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1951/12/25

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02008399
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• Document Creation Date: April 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2019
• Publication Date: December 25, 1951

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6. French and British still reluctant to halt German interzonal trade
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7. French Government faces new crisis on Tunisian policy (page 6).
8. Luxembourg hesitates to cut steel exports to Soviet bloc (page 7).
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6. French and British still reluctant to halt German interzonal trade:
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The French and British High Commissioners in
Germany have suggested that HICOM permit the
West Germans certain new exports to East
Germany under the partially suspended interzonal
ra epac , asser ing a some trade must be maintained as a bargaining point
in influencing the USSR to halt restrictions on West Berlin trade. The
suggestion was shelved after McCloy refused to agree to any such concessions,
emphasizing that the US was alarmed over the moderation of the Allied stand
on East-West trade.
7. French Government faces new crisis on Tunisian policy:
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The French Government is in a precarious
position with regard to its Tunisian policy.
Rightist parties are attacking Foreign Minister
Schuman for being too liberal toward the Tunisian
eman s, w le e ()ma sts and independent leftists are harassing the
government for not making more rapid progress toward liberalizing the
Tunisian regime.
Comment: Faced with such hostile extremes,
the government might find it difficult to survive a serious incident in Tunisia.
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8. Luxembourg hesitates to cut steel exports to Soviet bloc:
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A Luxembourg Foreign Office official has stated
that, because his country probably will not receive
any US economic or military assistance there is
some question of the extent to which needed im-
ports of Russian manganese and Czech malt in exchange for Luxembourg
steel should be sacrificed. He added that failure to obtain Soviet manganese
would reduce Luxembourg's steel industry's contribution to the defense pro-
gram. Furthermore, Orbit payments are made in advance and in dollars.
Comment: Luxembourg is slated to receive US
military assistance on a limited scaa
It is believed that important quantities of steel
will continue to be shipped illegally to eastern Europe in view of the long-
established relationship between Luxembourg producers and their steady cus-
tomers in Satellite countries. Considerable amounts of these exports are
licensed to the US and deflected to the Soviet bloc.
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