CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1952/02/08

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02046541
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• Document Creation Date: May 24, 2019
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2019
• Publication Date: February 8, 1952

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8 February 1952
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SUMMARY
GENERAL
1. British Foreign Office proposes travel restrictions on Soviet
officials (page 3).
2. Canada will increase contribution to NATO (page 3).
FAR EAST
3. Independent Japanese attitude revealed at Tokyo talks (page 4).
4. China sold almost entire strategic metal output to USSR in 1951
(page 5).
5. China and East Germany plan 1952 trade (page 5).
SOUTH ASIA
6. Kashmiri Prime Minister criticizes UN action on Kashmir (page 6).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
7. National Front control of new Iranian Parliament foreshadows
trouble (page 7).
8. Continued, if limited, friction reported between British and
Egyptian forces (page 7).
WESTERN EUROPE
9. Adenauer softens attitude on arms restrictions (page 8).
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British Foreign Office proposes travel restrictions on Soviet officials:
The Permanent Undersecretary of the British
Foreign Office has approved a proposal for
restricting the travel of Soviet officials in
Britain. The American Embassy in London
reports that the plan is identicai with a State Department draft on the
same subject.
The cabinet has not yet acted on the proposal.
Britain has hitherto been reluctant to take such retaliatory action for
fear of inviting further Soviet restrictions.
Comment: According to the proposal drafted
by the State Department, in which the American Embassy in Moscow
generally concurs, the travel of Soviet officials in the United States
would be regulated on the basis of reciprocity.
Although the related problem of the treatment
of Western nationals in Eastern European countrie has been discussed
in NATO, there is no indication that Britain is willing to abandon its
relatively cautious attitude toward retaliatory action against the Satellite
nations.
2. Canada will increase contribution to NATO:
Canada has agreed to allot to NATO an
additional 100 million dollars out of its
2.4 billion dollar defense budget. This
sum, like the 225 million dollar NATO
contribution previously provided for in the 1952-1953 defense budget,
will be in the form of military items manufactured in Canada.
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Comment: This increase in the Canadian
contribution to NATO is more substantial than had been expected after
�the cabinet's rejection last month of the Temporary Council Committee's
recommendation that Canada grant 200 million dollars of economic aid.
Finance Minister Abbott had indicated earlier that the contribution
would be limited to the difference between actual defense expenditures
and the amount budgeted. The cabinet still refuses to increase the
total Canadian defense expenditure for 1952-1953.
FAR EAST
3. Independent Japanese attitude revealed at Tokyo talks:
Dean Rusk, Chief US negotiator at the Tokyo
conference to conclude an administrative
agreement under the US-Japan Security Treaty,
states that the Japanese negotiators are friendly
and anxious to achieve a satisfactory agreement but are vigorously in-
sisting on arrangements similar to those now in force between the US
and its "other important friends."
The Japanese negotiators insist on assurances
that every aspect of the occupation will end with the effective date of the
peace treaty. They particularly object to the US-drafted agreement on
bases, which is more severe than a similar agreement signed with the
Philippines.
Comment: The Japanese Government is
sensitive to any implication that the occupation's extraterritorial privi-
leges will not be brought to a halt with the effective date of the peace
treaty.
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4. China sold almost entire strategic metal output to USSR in 1951:
China sold to the Soviet Union during 1951
a minimum of 37 million dollars worth of
highly strategic nonferrous metals. This
included 7,300 tons of antimony (both metal
and concentiate)r 1,504 tons of molybdenum concentrate, 7,496 tons
of tin and 14,000 tons of tungsten concentrate. The prices paid by
the USSR for these metals, except antimony, rose sharply during the
year. This was probably a result of increases in prices on the inter-
national market.
Comment: The above exports represent
almost the entire estimated Chinese output of these metals for the year.
A comparison of the trade figures with the
annual Soviet supply of these minerals shows that Chinese exports
were a substantial, and in the case of tungsten and antimony, a pre-
dominant source of these items to the USSR.
5. China and East Germany plan 1952 trade:
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plans to exchange East German industrial
products for Chinese metals and agricultural
'products during 1952. East Germany is to
send machine dot
s, chemicals, medicines and medical equipment, and
equipment for communications, electric power and photography.
Values, where cited, aggregate over 56 million dollars; in addition
there are other listed items of unspecified value.
Shipments from China are to include tungsten,
molybdenum, tin, antimony, manganese, asbestos, grains, peanuts,
silk, and tea.
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