CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1952/05/25

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• Document Creation Date: May 24, 2019
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2019
• Publication Date: May 25, 1952

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
FAR EAST
2. Japan plans gradual pressure to oust Soviet mission (page 3).
3. Japanese plan to relax export controls (page 4).
4. Chinese restrict Indian contacts with non-Communist diplomats
(page 4).
WESTERN EUROPE
5. Tripartite naval talks allay French suspicions (page 5).
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2. Japan plans gradual pressure to oust Soviet mission:
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The Japanese Government plans to force the 3.3(h)(2)
departure of the remaining members of the
Soviet mission by gradual pressure and at-
trition without taking any "spectacular"
action, according to Ambassador Murphy. Although nothing has been
done to restrict the movements of the Soviet personnel, the government
is keeping them under close surveillance and granting them no facilities.
The Japanese Foreign Office has received no request from the Soviet
representative to give him a formal status.
Comment: The Japanese Government is seek-
ing to transmit a note to the USSR through a third party stating that the
Soviet mission, formerly attached to the defunct Allied Council for Japan,
no longer has legal status. Japan's recent firm attitude toward the USSR
suggests that it is determined not to accept a subordinate status in its
dealings with the Soviet Union.
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3. Japanese plan to relax export controls:
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formally approached by the Japanese Govern-
ment for the American reaction to a relaxation
of export controls on shipments to Communist
China. Japan proposes to ship galvanized sheets, dyestuffs, wool yarn,
knit goods, and textile machinery in return for iron ore, coke, soybeans
and other products.
The approach was based on the expectation of
increasing Diet demands that Japanese restrictions not exceed those of
Western Europe. Ambassador Murphy recommends that the United States
offer no objection.
Comment: For some time Yoshida's govern-
ment has been under increasing pressure form political and trade groups
to reduce controls to the level exercised by Japan's western European
competitors.
A relaxation of Japan's controls may encourage
similar action elsewhere in the Far East. Galvanized sheets, for ex-
ample, which the Japanese propose to export to the Chinese Communists,
cannot legally be shipped from Hong Kong to China.
4. Chinese restrict Indian contacts with non-Communist diplomats:
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Comment: Top Chinese Communist officials
have attempted privately to impress the Indian delegation with their
devotion to peace in general and their desire for a settlement in Korea
in particular. In line with this, Peiping has apparently attempted to
restrict Indian contacts with non-Communist diplomats who might give
conflicting testimony.
WESTERN EUROPE
5. Tripartite naval talks allay French suspicions:
French suspicions that the US and Britain
intended to exclude France from discussions
of naval problems in the Mediterranean were
allayed by the scheduling of preliminary
tripartitk talks for 22 May. Previously
Ambassador Bonnet in Washington had been instructed to make a demarche
on the subject.
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