CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1952/10/11

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02018001
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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2019
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2019
• Publication Date: October 11, 1952

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SUMMARY
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West German sentiment favors all-German unity discussions
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New Soviet approach to France reported (page 5).
French receptive to Soviet 3.3(h)(2)
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4. West German sentiment favors all-German unity discussions:
A recent public opinion poll conducted by
HICOG in West Germany shows that two out
of three of those polled supported East-West
German discussions on unity. Six out of
seven approved of the Bonn decision to receive the East German
Volkskammer delegation on its recent visit.
Nearly half of those polled were not entirely
convinced of American sincerity on the question of German unification.
Comment: This support for all-German
talks is further evidence of eleventh-hour West German reluctance
to abandon hope for unification. It also suggests greater public
receptivity to the stepped-up Communist unity offers, and contradicts
earlier reports of public apathy toward the Volkskammer delegation
visit.
5. New Soviet approach to France reported:
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informed by a high French Foreign Ministry
official of an interview between Soviet
Foreign Minister Vyshinsky and French
mbassa or Lou s oxe upon the latter's recent departure on leave
from Moscow. Joxe was told that Moscow's "greatest wish" was to
reach a general understanding with France as the prelude to a
detente between East and West. The French Foreign Ministry is
thinking of instructing Soxe to say upon his return that talks, if any,
should be held in Paris rather than Moscow.
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The American Embassy comments that
the French Foreign Office seems well aware of the current Soviet
desire to divide the West.
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Comment: French Ambassador Soxe,
although anti-Communist, is reported to have definite leftist tendencies.
and to be impressed by Soviet sincerity regarding the dangers
implicit in "aggressive" American intentions.
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Prime Minister Pinay's recent rejection of
the American note on military expenditures and the universal press
approval for his independent stand with regard to American "interference"
indicate that the French Government, given sufficient encouragement
by the USSR, may strike out on a course of its own with respect to
such policies as EDC and rearmainent
French receptive to Soviet over-
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Comment: The current climate of
opinion in France seems symiiffetic if not receptive to Soviet
overtures for a renewal of four-power negotiations looking to a
settlement of the 'cold war." The present rumor campaign further
jeopardizes the chances for ratification of the EDC treaty in the
National Assembly,
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