CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1957/06/22

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• Publication Date: June 22, 1957

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22 June 1957
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CONTENTS
. THE SYRIAN SITUATION
(page 3).
) 2. BEN-GURION'S VIEWS ON ARAB-ISRAELI PROBLEMS
(page 4).
. TURKISH 7107.L ELECTIONS TO BE ADVANCED
TO FALL (page 5).
4. POLISH-EAST GERMAN COMMUNIQUES
(page 6).
lb 5. BOURGES-MAUNOURY FACING CONFIDENCE VOTE
(page 7).
t166. CHINESE COMMUNISTS MOVE JET BOMBERS INTO
SOUTHEAST CHINA (page 8).
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1. THE SYRIAN SITUATION
Comment on:
Rumors persist in Syria that the
army might attempt to seize power.
The Turkish military attache has
informed the American military at-
tache that the period of greatest
danger will be after the departure of
President Quwatli for Switzerland,
sometime within the next week. The
recent attempt to assassinate CoL
Mustafa Hamdun, one of Col, Sarray s strongest military
supporters, has increased tension. The arrest of two Com-
munists on the spot as suspects indicates that the attack may
have been planned by the Communists to precipitate a move
against the right by the ultranationalist leftists in the army.
Akram Hawrani, leader of the Baath
Party, stated on 18 June that the army will avoid a direct
assumption of power in the near future unless there is a
breakdown of internal order or outside intervention,
Hawrani
added that Syria lacked any officer of sufficient stature to
head the government. While these views suggest there will
be no coup, they do not exclude the possibility that the leftist
military group would try to install a civilian figurehead.such
as Defense Minister Azm, as an army front.
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2. BEN-GURION'S VIEWS ON ARAB-ISRAELI PROBLEMS
Reference:
rime Minister Ben-Gurion has de-
ied King Saud's charges that Israeli
hips have violated Saudi waters and
ired into Saudi territory. Ben-Gurion
told US embassy officials he visited Eilat to investigate the
charges and is convinced that they are unfounded. He added
that he had ordered Israeli naval units there to desist from
exercises which might give Saud a pretext for further com-
plaints.
Saudi messages from the Aqaba area
indicate that in recent weeks Israeli naval and air forces
have engaged in what the Saudis have considered provoca-
tive maneuvers.
Ben-Gurion said that preconditions for
a settlement must be Arab realization that Israel is strong
enough both militarily and economically to survive as a state,
and emergence of Arab leaders more interested in human wel-
fare than in their personal aggrandizement. Foreign Minister
Meir has already expressed Israel's concern over the manner
in which King Saud's leadership has increased Arab-Israeli
tensions�
Ben- Gurion said that the Arab refugee
problem must be part of an over-all settlement and that Israel
could not be expected to repatriate Arab refugees when it is
still committed to provide refuge for the Jews in Arab coun-
tries and the Soviet Satellites. He asserted that Israel would
develop its share of the Jordan River waters with or without
Arab consent. The water plan is regarded as essential to de-
velopment of the Negev region, where the Israelis hope to settle
future immigrants.
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3. TURKISH NATIONAL ELECTIONS TO BE
ADVANCED TO FALL
Comment
Turkish national elections will prob-
ably be held this fall instead of next
spring, the secretary general of the
Turkish Foreign Ministry told Amer-
ican officials in Ankara on 20 June.
This information gives substance to
persistent rumors that the Turkish
elections were to be advanced. Prime Minister Menderes
is concerned over the inroads the opposition parties, es-
pecially the Freedom Party, have made in the provinces,
the traditional stronghold of the incumbent Democratic
Party. Menderes also probably believes the advantages
he would enjoy this fall may be diminished by next spring,
largely as the result of increased inflation and shortages
of essential imports.
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4. POLISH-EAST GERMAN COMMUNIQUES
Comment on:
Emphasis on unity and solidarity char-
acterizes the bland communiqu�released
following three days of talks between Po-
lish and East German party and govern-
ment leaders in East Berlin. The commu-
niqu�try to make it appear that harmonious relations exist
between the two parties which have been at odds since Gomulka
came to power in Poland last October.
The fact, however, that there are still un-
resolved differences between the Poles and East Germans is
emphatically pointed up by the omission of the usual Satellite
reference to the leading role of the Soviet Union among Commu-
nist states and the failure to endorse the Soviet position on the
Hungarian revolution. Moreover, the communiques took spe-
cial cognizance of Communist China's contribution to bloc-wide
socialist development.
Although affirming that the "basic principles
of socialist construction are common to all countries," the par,
communiqu�vidences some flexibility on the part of both the
Poles and East Germans, stating that "these principles should
be applied in a creative manner, taking into account the histor-
ically formed conditions in each country...." This statement,
while stopping somewhat short of the Polish separate roads to
socialism thesis, goes further than the East Germans have been
willing to go in the past. At the same time, all Communist and
workers' parties were exhorted to watch over their "ideological
purity" and "determinedly combat distortions, both revisionIst
and dogmatic."
The communiqu�contained the usual Soviet
bloc position on German reunification and the threat of German
militarism, and reasserted the permanency of the Oder-Neisse
frontier. They also called for an understanding with all states
bordering the Baltic to make it "a sea of peace," suggesting a
revival of earlier Communist proposals for a conference of
Baltic powers.
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BOURGES-MAUNOURY FACING CONFIDENCE VOTE
Premier Bourges-Maunoury has been
authorized by the cabinet to make his
fiscal program a confidence measure in
the vote expected on 24 June. The main
threat to the program lies in the as yet
unresolved conflict on fiscal policy between the Socialists
and moderate right. Popular Republican support for the gov-
ernment is anticipated since this group has been promised
assembly consideration of the European integration treaties
on 2 July.
The American embassy in Paris estimates
that the assembly's desire to pass the government's fiscal and
integration programs will save the cabinet. However, the gov-
ernment survived the procedural vote on the assembly agenda
only by accepting Communist support, an indication that its
position is "extremely precarious."
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6, CHINESE COMMUNISTS MOVE JET BOMBERS INTO
SOUTHEAST CHINA
Comment on:
Three and possibly nine IL-28 jet
light bomoers of a Chinese Commu-
nist air division based at Nanking on
18 June flew from their home base to
Nanchang, a jet fighter base about 300
wiles northwest of Amoy. This move
possibly presages transfer of the entire
division of about 60 jet light bombers to
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the recently completed Hsincheng airfield, located about
225 miles north of Hong Kong and 250 miles west of Amoy,
IL-28's based at Hsincheng would be in position to range
over the s of the South China Sea as well as
Taiwan.
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