CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1952/06/17

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• Document Creation Date: May 24, 2019
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2019
• Publication Date: June 17, 1952

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
GENERAL
I. Tripartite agreement likely on new proposal for four-power talks
on Germany (page 3).
FAR EAST
2. Bao Dai reportedly gambling on early fall of new Vietnamese
Government (page 3).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
3. Iranian oil shipment may be impounded at Aden (page 4).
4. Tunisian nationalists reported pressing the pey to refuse French
reforms (page 4).
5. Asian-African bloc in UN will act on Tunisian question (page 5).
WESTERN EUROPE
6. East German Security Ministry given wide new police powers
(page 6).
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GENERAL
1. Tripartite agreement likely on new proposal for four-yower talks on
Germany:
The latest American draft of the Western
reply to the Soviet note of 25 May has been
received favorably by the British and
French Foreign Offices. Although Eden
an c uman ave s I o give their personal approval, the American
Embassy in London believes that the principal difficulties with Britain
are solved. The French Foreign Office expects that Schuman will ac-
cept the new draft.
Comment: The present draft reply pro-
poses that four-power meetings be held in two stages. The first stage
would be limited to discussions of the composition and functions of a
commission to investigate conditions for all-German elections. Sub-
sequent meetings would discuss the proposals in the Western note of
13 May concerning the status of an all-German government before the
conclusion of a peace treaty.
Chancellor Adenauer has indicated that if there
are four-power talks, he may have to reconsider pressing for early
West German ratification of the contractual agreement and the EDC
treaty.
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2. Bao Dai reportedly gambling on early fall of new Vietnamese Government:
\Bao Dai,
In yielding ito French pressure to oust
former Premier Huu, deliberately chose
Tam as Huu's successor in the hope that
Tam would further discredit the French policy of slow evolutionary
progress toward Vietnamese independence. Bao Dai hoped thus to
pave the way for the formation of a genuine nationalist government.
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this tactic may
benefit of the Viet Minh and invite military disaster.
Comment: Numerous other reports on the
lend plausibility to this view.
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3. Iranian oil shipment may be impounded at Aden:
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The tanker Rosemary, under charter to an 3.3(h)(2)
Italian company and loaded with 1000 tons
of Iranian crude oil, is disabled and will
reportedly put in at Aden on 17 lune. Ac-
cording to the Foreign Office official who provided this information,
the British plan to impound the cargo which was scheduled for re-
fining in Italy and transshipment to a Swiss consignee.
Although the Italian Government has as-
sured Britain that it will not grant an import license for the oil, it
has pointed out that delivery at the free port of Naples or Trieste
cannot be prevented.
Comment: The Rosemary, under Honduran
registry, is carrying the first oil to leave Iran since nationalization.
This shipment reportedly will be followed by others under a contract
negotiated between Iran and an Italian company acting for a Swiss firm.
4. Tunisian nationalists reported pressing the Bey to refuse French reforms:
the Bey will refuse to pro-
?nulgate the French program for the re-
organization of Tunisia's government unless
it is first discussed with representatives of Tunioian nationalism.
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the
Tunisian Prime Minister believes that this is chiefly
responsible for the Bey's stiffer stand on reforms. The Prime
Minister is said to have urged the Residency to consider taking ad-.
ministrative action against
ending the stalemate, based on French negotiations with the national-
ists and American supervision of these negotiations. The program
is said to be supported by the Bey and the present Tunisian Cabinet,
which allegedly has secret relations with the in Cairo.
France currently plans to impose rather
than negotiate reforms for Tunisia and to act exclusively through the
Bey.
5. Asian-African bloc in UN will act on Tunisian question:
The chief Pakistani delegate to the United
Nations has stated that the Asian-African
bloc on 12 June decided to request a special
session of the UN General Assembly to
discuss the Tunisian question. He said that the group would meet
again, not later than 18 June, in an effort to obtain as many signatures
as possible to the request, which would be forwarded immediately to
the UN Secretary General.
Comment: The Asian-African bloc's suc-
cess in obtaining the necessary 31 signatures for calling a special
session of the Assembly will depend on a few uncertain members,
whose attitude is likely to be affected by the United States position.
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According to American embassy officials in
Latin America, Spanish diplomatic missions in that area have been
instructefl to seek support for the Asian-African effort Although the
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WESTERN EUROPE
6. East German Security Ministry given wide new police powers:
American officials in Berlin comment that
the latest East German security decree,
announced 13 June, puts broad new powers
into the hands of the Ministry of State
�thiianiemocratic Republic and fits in with the
present campaign to intimidate both East and West Germans as well
as to ensure compliance with restrictive measures.
The decree, in apparently "deliberately
confused language," is thought to permit the Security Ministry to
execute throughout East Germany the measures which originally ap-
plied only to the restricted border area. In effect, it subordinates
all police and judicial organs to the Ministry of State Security and
allows the Ministry to conduct searches, make arrests, and impose
sentences without reference to existing laws.
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