CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1952/05/29

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• Document Creation Date: May 24, 2019
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2019
• Publication Date: May 29, 1952

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SUMMARY
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1. Soviet desire to negotiate seen in latest note (page 3).
FAR EAST
2. Strong UN action urged against President Rhee (page 3).
3. Elements of new Chinese army reported in Korea (page 4).
EASTERN EUROPE
4. Comment on Rumanian Cabinet dismissals (page 4).
WESTERN EUROPE
5. Trieste elections reflect decreasing popularity of Italian Christian
Democrats (page 5).
6. West German workers mistake purpose of strike 'wave (page 6).
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GENERAL
1. Soviet desire to negotiate seen in latest note:
US High Commission officials in Berlin
believe that the latest Soviet note confirms
that the Kremlin is not yet prepared to aban-
don efforts aimed at preventing implemen-
tation of the contractual agreements or securing "satisfactory" four-
power agreement on Germany.
HICOG points out that the USSR has now ac-
cepted the demand of the Western powers for the establishment of an
Impartial commission to investigate elections, and has, at least tempo-
rarily, dropped its insistence on Germany's exclusion from any alliance
of Western powers.
�Comment: The recent note indicated little
change in the Soviet position, It evaded the specific Western conditions
regarding German elections by implying that the composition of an im-
partial electoral commission be settled by four-power agreement, and
was ambiguous respecting Germany's right to enter into an alliance with
the West.
FAR EAST
2. Strong UN action urged against President Rhee:
American Charge Lightner in Pusan believes
that if democratic government in SouthKorea
is to be preserved, immediate action is re-
quired to curb President Rhee's dictatorial
methods.
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Lightner recommends a protest by the UN
Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea. If this does
not bring immediate results, the Charge suggests a 24-hour ultimatum
specifying that UN forces will take protective action unless imprisoned
National Assemblymen are released and their safety and right to meet
guaranteed.
Lightner comments that Lithe violation of
democratic processes is permitteCtin Korea, where the United Nations
Is in a strong position, Korean democratic elements will be completely
disillusioned and the new governments of the Far East will gain the im-
pression that the United States is unwilling to support the principles it
professes.
3, Elements of new Chinese army reported in Korea:
On 18 May an unidentified Chinese Communist
regiment in Korea notified its subordinate units
that two companies of guerrillas belonging to
the 50th Division are "now going into activity."
Comment: The 50th Division is normally
subordinate to the 17th Army, which is currently accepted in southern
Kweichow, China. The entry of elements of this new army into Korea
comes at a time when Chinese Communist units are reporting very high
levels of supply in food, petroleum and ammunition, Th ir presence,as
well as the shifting of other Chinese armies toward the ventral front,indi-
cates a new capability in that area.
EASTERN EUROPE
4. Comment on Rumanian Cabinet dismissals:
The simultaneous dismissals of Teohari
Georgescu, the Minister of Interior, and Vasile Luca from the Rumanian
Council of Ministers tAnds to weaken earlier speculation that recent shake-
ups in the Rumanian Government have been due to intra-party clashes be-
tween "Nationalist" and "Moscow" wings within the party hierarchy.
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Luca, who was removed from his post as Minister of Finance on 8 March,
is identified with the "Moscow" wing. Georgescu has generally been
regarded as close to the "Nationalist" wing of the Rumanian party.
Since March, there have been reports of vary-
ing reliapility that Luca's removal was engineered by Georgescu for
motives of personal political ambition. This suggests that the two men,
each of whom was a vice premier, might have been removed from the
Council of Ministers as a result of the threat posed to Rumanian party
solidarity by their reported personal rivalry and ambition.
WESTERN EUROPE
5. Trieste elections reflect decreasing popularity of Italian Christian Democrats:
Although the 25 May elections in Zone A of 3.3(h)(2)
Trieste gave the pro-Italian parties a majority)
the Christian Democrats showed a notable
loss of strength since the last elections. The
neo-Fascists almost doubled their vote, as did the parties favoring an
Independent Trieste. The Communists lost slightly in the city of Trieste,
but their party remained the second strongest there and in Zone A as a
whole.
The pro-Italian vote was 58.6 percent of the
total as compared with 62.4 percent in 1949. In the city of Trieste,the
Christian Democratic vote dropped from 39 to 33 percent of the total and
that of the electoral bloc led by the Christian Democrats from 52.7 to
47 percent.
Comment: The trends in Trieste, as Premier
de Gasperi had feared, are generally similar to those shown in the South
Italian elections of the same date.
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West German workers mistake purpose of strike wave:
There is increasing evidence that many West
German workers are interpreting the current
demonstrations of the Federation of Trade
Unions as a protest against Chancellor Adenauer's
foreign policy, whereas the Federation intends them as a protest against
the government's draft of the Works Organization Law. The printers'
union went out on a two-day strike on 27 May, stopping all printing in West
Germany, and according to German sources the labor federation may call
further strikes and organize a march on Bonn.
Comment: Among the chief demands of labor
in these protest actions, which began two weeks ago and have involved on
occasion as many as 100, 000 workers, is the extension of the right of
employees to participate in managerial decisions.
The US High Commissioner's office in Bonn re-
ported on 26 May that the Communists have been trying without much
success to exploit these short-duration strikes to weaken popular support
for the contractual agreement and the EDC treaty.
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