CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1957/05/15

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• Publication Date: May 15, 1957

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CONTENTS
1. DELIVERY OF SOVIET BLOC SUBMARINES TO EGYPT
MAY BE IMMINENT (page 3).
2. USSR TO BUILD HEAVY MACHINERY PLANTS IN INDIA
(page 4).
3. KRISHNA MENON LIKELY TO CONTINUE AS HEAD OF
INDIAN DELEGATION TO UN (page 5).
0/C4. MOROCCAN SULTAN WANTS TO NEGOTIATE FRIENDSHIP
TREATY WITH THE UNITED STATES (page 6).
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1. DELIVERY OF SOVIET BLOC SUBMARINES TO
EGYPT MAY BE IMMINENT
Comment
Cairo
plans to store "all the submarine
ue Alexandria0
delivery
of the two submarines which have been
on order under the Egyptian-Soviet bloc arms contract of
September 1955 is about to take place. The first attempt,
in late 1956, to deliver these craft--presumably with Soviet
crews to remain in Egypt as instructors--was halted by the
Suez hostilities.
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2. USSR TO BUILD HEAVY MACHINERY PLANTS
IN INDIA
India intends to accept a Soviet offer
to finance and build two heavy machin-
ery plants under the $126,000,000 loan
the USSR extended in November 1956.
The American embassy in New Delhi
states that a committee of experts,
which was appointed by the Indian gov-
ernment to compare a Soviet plan for a
large integrated plant with a British plan for several smaller
plants, rejected the Soviet plan as too expensive. When the
USSR agreed to reduce the cost and scope of the project,
India's Planning Commission reversed the committee's deci-
sion at Prime Minister Nehru's behest.
Press reports indicate that the present
Indian plan is to have the USSR build a plant for manufacture
of heavy machinery and another for building mining machin-
ery. Britain, however, is to build three heavy machinery
plants, and negotiations are under way with the USSR, Czecho-
slovakia, Britain and West Germany concerning the establish-
ment of two others.
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3. KRISHNA MENON LIKELY TO CONTINUE AS HEAD OF
INDIAN DELEGATION TO UN
Comment on:
V. K. Krishna Menon is expected in
New York soon, presumably next week,
to deal with Kashmir and possibly the
UN charter review, according to a mem-
ber of the Indian delegation to the UN.
Representatives of both the Indian and
Pakistani delegations to the UN have previously reported
that Menon, who was recently appointed India's minister of
defense, is likely to continue to head the Indian delegation
to the UN on all matters of importance.
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4, MOROCCAN SULTAN WANTS TO NEGOTIATE FRIENDSHIP
TREATY WITH THE UNITED STATES
Moroccan foreign minister Balafrej in-
formed the American ambassador on
13 May of the sultan's desire that air base
negotiations proceed as rapidly as possi-
ble and that such negotiations "proceed within the framework
of a United States-Moroccan treaty of friendship:'
The ambassador reports that this urgent
Moroccan request to conclude a formal treaty with the United
States stems from a belief that France will make no early ef-
fort to resolve outstanding French-Moroccan problems. The
Moroccans hope by concluding a treaty with the United States
to induce France to agree to a settlement.
Comment The desire to enlarge the framework of
present negotiations is in line with the
Moroccans' earlier strategy. On 13 March they refused to
proceed with negotiations regarding the continued operation
of the Voice of America relay station in Tangier until conver-
sations on the "ensemble of problems" existing between the
Moroccan and American governments, particularly the ques-
tion of the air bases, was opened.
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