CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1952/04/12

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
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• Document Creation Date: May 24, 2019
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2019
• Publication Date: April 12, 1952

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
FAR EAST
1. Karens and Burmese Communists continue to discuss alliance
(page 3).
SOUTH ASIA
2. Comment on the new Ceylonese leftist coalition (page 3).
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3. Iranian Prime Minister admits inability to sell oil (page 4).
4. Egyptian Prime Minister will postpone elections (page 4).
5. Egypt now opposes draft statement on Anglo-Egyptian negotiations
(page 5).
6. Italy plans to urge again a settlement of the Anglo-Egyptian
controversy (page 5).
7. Bey delays Tunisian Cabinet appointments (page 6).
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1. Karens and Burmese Communists continue to discuss alliance:
Representatives of the insurgent Karens and the
Communists are reported/
to have met on about 1 March and agreed to the
formation of a separate Karen state when the Burmese Government is
overthrown. Concurrence was also reached to hold further discussions
prior to a final meeting between the top leaders to establish a "common
policy." This conference is scheduled for early summer.
Comment: Recent reports on the progress of
Karen-Communist negotiations have been conflicting. This information
indicates that the Communists are continuing their heretofore fruitless
efforts to obtain an alliance with the Karens.
SOUTH ASIA
2. Comment on the new Ceylonese leftist coalition:
Former Minister of Health Bandaranaike,
leader of the leftist Ceylonese Freedom Party, and the Trotskyite Party
have combined forces to threaten the incumbent United National Party
at the general elections in May. Bandaranaike resigned last July over
policy and subsequently made successful coalition approaches toward the
Trotskyites.
The United National Party, which now has a
small parliamentary majority, may have it lessened by defections to the
new opposition Freedom Party coalition, and may thus lose effective
control of the government through the necessity of making opportunistic
compromises in exchange for independent votes. A Communist-domi-
nated government might develop from the situation.
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3. Iranian Prime Minister admits inability to sell oil:
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Great Britain has been "singularly successful"
in preventing reopening of the Iranian oil industry,
Prime. Minister Mossadeq told the American
Ambassador, and Iran has so far been unable
oil." Mossadeq again added that anti-British
sentiment is so strong that law and order would be threatened if British
technicians returned to the oil fields.
Comment: Western oil companies, fearful of
jeopardizing their world-wide operations, have refused to make offers
for Iranian oil.
ossadeq has received offers from Western as well as Iron
Curtain countries;_ some of these offers have mentioned the availability
of tankers.
4. Egyptian Prime Minister will postpone elections:
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The Egyptian Foreign Minister informed the
American Ambassador that in response to
British wishes Prime Minister Hilali has
decided to act on 12 April to postpone the
parliamentary elections scheduled for 18 May. This action is to be
taken in spite of the expected uproar from Wafd extremist elements.
Some mention has been made that August would be the new date for elections.
Comment: Previous reports from Cairo have
insisted that the elections would not be held on schedule. The Arab press
on 11 April stated that the elections would be postponed until October.
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Egypt now opposes draft statement on Anglo-Egyptian negotiations:
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Egypt, according to Foreign Minister Hassouna
Pasha, is unwilling to accept a British Foreign
Office revision of the proposed statement, previ-
ously agreed upon in Cairo by the British Am-
bassador and the Egyptian Foreign Minister,
which is to precede negotiations. Hassouna
states that as a result of the promulgation of
the Sudan constitution Prime Minister Hilali
Pasha is now so skeptical of British intentions that he has become opposed
to the original draft declaration.
Hassouna adds that "in order to cover up for the
Egyptian public what is going on," former Ambassador to London, Amr
Pasha, will soon go to England, ostensibly to give Foreign Secretary Eden
an account of Egypt's position.
6. Italy plans to urge again a settlement of the Anglo-Egyptian controversy:
The Secretary General of the Italian Ministry
of Foreign Affairs has informed the Egyptian
Ambassador in Rome that Italy intends to make
new and "friendly demarches" to London and
Cairo in an effort to solve the Anglo-Egyptian
impasse.
Both Italy and Greece, according to the
Secretary General, are interested in reaching a speedy agreement re-
garding Farouk's title of "King of the Sudan." Each country is delaying
sending a new ambassador to Cairo pending settlement of Farouk's title.
Comment: Italy and Greece are especially
interested in improving Egyptian relations with the West because of the
substantial Italian and Greek minorities living in Egypt and the important
trade relationships.
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7. Bey delays Tunisian Cabinet appointments:
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the Bey is "stalling" approval of cabinet
appointments until after the Security Council
has acted on the Tunisian question. Consequently
e Resident General in Tunis, in order to aid France's UN delegation in
defending its position, authorized a fictitious press release stating that
the cabinet had already been formed.
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Prime Minister Baccouche and the cabinet
nominees are said to be "growing nervous" over charges that they are
Quislings.
Comment: In view of the Security Council's
postponement of the Tunisian question on 10 April,the French may be
expected to renew pressure on the Bey for the installation of a cabinet.
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