CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1951/08/30

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• Publication Date: August 30, 1951

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
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I. French expect to curb Vietnamese at San Francisco (page 3)
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2. Indonesia hesitant over signing Japanese treaty (page 3).
USSR
New Soviet tactic expected in East-West trade campaign (page 4).
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WESTERN EUROPE
5. East German paramilitary force plans to establish ten mobile
hospitals (page 6).
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GENERAL
French, expect to cuKb VietAamese at San Francisco:
The French Minister for the Associated States
has "guaranteed" that Vietnam's Premier
Tran Van Huu and other Associated States
representatives at the San Francisco conference
no ge ou of line." The French are highly critical of Huuts public
statements on a security pact and reparations from Japan. They feel, how-
ever, that Huu's remarks were probably intended for domestic consumption
in Vietnani.
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Comment: French irritation over Huu's state-
ments is probably due to a desire to avoid any issue that might further com-
plicate the an Francisco conference or prejudice the future international
prestige of Vietnam.
France originally asked for two billion dollars
in reparations from Japan, but later bargained this claim against other con-
cessions, including representation for the Associated States at San Francisco.
If other countries present reparation claims at San Francisco, however, the
French can be expected to renew their demands. While the French are as
anxious as the Vietnamese for additional funds to balance Vietnam's shaky
budget, they are aware of Japan's inability to pay combined reparations.
. Indonesia hesitant over signing Javanese treaty:
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A spokesman of the Indonesian Foreign Off ice
told the US Ambassador that Indonesia will
probably object chiefly to the reparations clause
of the Japanese peace treaty. If this clause is
not altered as desired, Indonesia will seek "some sort of compensation,."
probably in the form of economic concessions from the US, in return for
signing.
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The ambassador notes that Indonesia's signa-
ture will depend to a considerable extent upon developments in San Francisco
and upon the reaction thereto of the Indonesian press and political leaders.
There is already a strong threat of dissension within Indonesia's largest par-
ty -- the Masjumi -- which may make it somewhat difficult for the govern-
ment to obtain approval for signing the treaty.
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3. New Soviet t4ctic expected in East-West trade camoaien:
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The US Embassy in Moscow is inclined to credit
rumors that the Soviet Union is considering a
proposal for a new organization patterned after
the European Payments Union but also including
the countries of the Soviet Orbit. In its present form the EPU acts as a
clearing house for trade among Marshall Plan countries.
The embassy believes that a proposal of this
type would fit into the strategy of the USSR's East-West trade campaign' now
under way in Western Europe. It would dramatize the Soviet claim that
Russia is ready to cooperate in a general revival of this trade. If the res-
ponse proved favorable, the Soviet Union would hope to open up a new field of
action in its effort to weaken Western trade controls. This action might be
designed to widen the split between US trade policy and the desires of certain
Western European countries to continue trade in essential commodities. ,
In the embassy's view, however, the disruptive
possibilities of such a proposal are slight, given the functional nature of EPU
itself as a European clearing house and the interest European states have in
making it work.
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wide clearing house would be in line with current Moscow..attempts to portray
the USSR as attempting to improve East-West trade. However, the USSR has
usually carried on its non-Orbit economic relations by bilateral agreements
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and has joined few post-war international organizations of any sort Within the
Soviet Orbit, the USSR could set up an EPU type of organization even though the
ruble is already freely convertible throughout the Orbit
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5, East German paramilitary force plans to establish terunobile hospitals: 3.3(h)(2)
According to an unconfirmed report, the Medical
Department of the East German paramilitary
force plans to activate ten self-contained mobile
hospital units. Each mobile hospital would con-
sist of nine three and one-half ton trucks and eleven trailers, with complete
hospital equipment, including its own generators and water-distillation plant.
The Medical Department has requested that it be furnished with 500 ambu-
lances, each having a four-stretcher capacity.
Comment: A school for training paramilitary
medical personnel has existed since late 1950. The activation of mobile hos-
pital units capable of taking the field would seem a logical step in the develop-
ment of the East German "Bereitschaften, " a force of over 50,000 men which
has already been provided with tanks and artillery for training purposes, and
which also now has "air police" and "sea police" units.
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