CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1957/02/12

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• Publication Date: February 12, 1957

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CURRENT
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CONTENTS
1. EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR BELIEVES CAIRO WILL
"DENOUNCE" KING SAUD
(page 3).
2. ALI SABRI AGAIN WARNS EGYPT MAY HALT CLEAR-
ANCE OF CANAL (page 4).
- 3. BULGANIN NOTE TO ADENAUER
(page 5).
4. JAPAN'S DEFENSE PROGRAM RECEIVES FURTHER SET-
BACK (page 7).
OFFICIAL POLISH PRESS REBUTTAL OF BULGARIAN
CRITICISM (page 8).
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1. EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR BELIEVES CAIRO WILL
"DENOUNCE" KING SAUD
Egyptian ambassador Hussein on 9 Feb-
ruary told Foreign Minister Fawzi, now
in New York, he believed Cairo would
"denounce King Saud without delay" as a
result of the American-Saudi commu-
niqu�Hussein said that the Americans had "won over"
King Saud and that the visit was "a complete success from
the American viewpoint and from our viewpoint a complete
inconvenience." Hussein told Fawzi that an Egyptian denun-
ciation of Saud "interests the Americans because it would
isolate us--and interests the Russians because it isolates
us also and leaves us at their mercy:'
Comment
Nasr was irked that Saud made public
statements on the American proposals for the Middle East
before discussing his Washington talks with other Arab
leaders. He also reportedly feels King Saud went too far
in endorsing the proposals.
Part of the Egyptian press has reacted
in a hostile manner to the American-Saudi communiqu�but
an official line has not yet appeared. Any attacks on Saud
will be tempered by the fear of losing Saudi financial assist-
ance.
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2. ALI SABRI AGAIN WARNS EGYPT MAY HALT
CLEARANCE OF CANAL
Ali Sabri, chief of the Egyptian cabinet
and Nases principal political adviser, told
a competent American observer on 7 Feb-
ruary that "a halt to canal clearance work
was the only alternative he saw to military action to compel
Israel to withdraw from Sinai and the Gaza strip!' Sabri said
such "dangerous action" would be demanded by the Egyptian
public, which otherwise would feel that aggression was being
rewarded and that Egypt was yielding to pressure.
Comment Although Sabries statements are aimed at
influencing the United States to exert pres-
sure on Israel, an increasing number of reports and press
statements indicate that the Nasr regime does seriously in-
tend to use the canal clearance issue as a diplomatic lever, de-
spite its need for the revenues an open canal would presumably
provide. A semiofficial Cairo newspaper on 9 February stated
that this question was discussed by the Egyptian cabinet at its
first meeting since the hostilities and that clearance operations
would be suspended unless Israel withdrew.
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3. BULGANIN NOTE TO ADENAUER
Comment on:
The note of 5 February from Premier
Bulganin to Chancellor Adenauer is the
opening gun in a Soviet effort to create
election year difficulties for Adenauer.
It seeks to prove that his policies are blocking a German
settlement and to strengthen those West German parties
which oppose Bonn's NATO alignment and advocate a more
independent course in international affairs.
The moderately worded note offers a
"decisive new orientation of relations" between Bonn and
Moscow, and recalls the Bismarckian tradition in German
diplomacy of maintaining close relations with Russia. On
the other hand, it contains an attack on Adenauer's rearma-
ment policy and a warning against making West Germany
vulnerable to atomic counterattack by turning it into a base
for atomic war.
Bulganin does not offer any new proposals.
He again suggests agreements on trade, cultural and techni-
cal co-operation, while repeating the standard unification for-
mula: rapprochement between East and West Germany. Bul-
ganin does not pursue the suggestion for a demilitarized zone
in central Europe made in the Soviet note of last October, al-
though he does refer to the 17 November Soviet disarmament
proposals, which included reductions in foreign troops sta-
tioned in the NATO and Warsaw pact territories.
The interest of the West Germans will
center on the Soviet unification proposals; they will probably
feel that the insistence on a rapprochement with East Germany
shows the lack of Soviet interest in the subject. The note is
unlikely to affect West German rearmament. On the other hand,
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Adenauer recognizes the link between central European
military arrangements and German unification, and will
soon send Moscow a note on these matters. To avoid ap-
pearing completely negative, Adenauer may be receptive
to talks aimed at increased trade, although he apparently
still opposes a formal trade agreement.
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4. JAPAN'S DEFENSE PROGRAM RECEIVES
FURTHER SETBACK
The Japanese cabinet has decided not
to introduce legislation in the current
Diet session to protect the security of
military information, according to the
American embassy in Tokyo. The cancellation is the direct
result of adverse public reaction to recent newspaper spec-
ulation concerning the possibility of the introduction into Japan
of an American "atomic " and of guided missiles
with atomic capability.
Comment Security legislation has been a sensitive
issue in Japan because it is associated
in the Japanese mind with prewar "thought control" regula-
tions. Socialist propaganda almost certainly would also
claim that the security legislation was intended to provide
a cover for "secret diplomacy" and the introduction of nu-
clear weapons.
The absence of adequate security legis-
lation has prevented the equipment of Japan's defense forces
with advanced American weapons.
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5, OFFICIAL POLISH PRESS REBUTTAL OF
BULGARIAN CRITICISM
Comment on:
The official newspaper of the Polish
government, Zycie Warszawy, on 9 Feb-
ruary defended Poland's concept of "de-
mocratization" against criticism by the
Bulgarian party daily. Heretofore, the intellectual and youth
publications of Poland have carried the burden of ideological
debates, while the official government and party journals
have remained aloof.
Gomulka may now feel obliged, as a re-
sult of intensified bloc attacks, to commit the government's
official newspaper in the ideological struggle. The polite
tone of Zycie's article may indicate that the government has
stepped into the debate, in part, in an effort to direct and con-
trol the outspoken commentary of segments of the press that
it regards as often irresponsible.
The Zycie Warszawy article rejected the
Bulgarian journal's charge that "enemies of socialism" in
Poland were resorting to a "demagogic slogan of so-called
'democratization' :' It asserted that "if the struggle against
the consequences of the cult of personality is not...a strug-
gle for democratiz ty clich�nd a mean-
ingless phrase:'
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