CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1955/07/30

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• Document Release Date: September 26, 2019
• Publication Date: July 30, 1955

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30 July 1955
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
SOUTHEAST ASIA
1,, Chinese Communist military mission reported assigned to North
Vietnam (page 3).
2. Malaya election results presage new difficulties for British
(page 3).
3. Comment on Indonesian cabinet negotiations (page 4).
SOUTH ASIA
4. Comment on Afghanistan demobilization (page 5).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
5. Moroccan nationalist leaders term United States an "enemy"
(page 5).
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1. Chinese Communist military mission reported assigned to North
Vietnam:
A 70-man Chinese Communist military mis-
sion will soon be installed in Haiphong,
The mission is
reported to include army, navy and air force personnel who will
assist in training Viet Minh personnel.
Comment: Large numbers of Chinese,
as well as Russian. technicians and advisers are already known
to be attached to the Viet Minh army.
The Viet Minh is not known to have an air force, however, and its
navy has been limited to a few river and harbor patrol craft. The
inclusion of naval and air force personnel in the Chinese mission
would indicate that an effort to build up these arms will soon be un-
der way.
Viet Minh propaganda has recently as-
serted the need to increase military capabilities in order to "re-
conquer our independence and national unity." A Chinese mission
would be justified by the Communists as a purely defensive meas-
ure--to conform with the Geneva agreement--and as a counter-
measure to the American training mission in South Vietnam.
. Malaya election results resage new difficulties for Britishr
The American consulate in Kuala Lumpur
believes the overwhelming victory of the
Malay-Chinese-Indian Alliance in Malaya's
27 July elections on a campaign calling
or accelerated self-government presages an early conflict with
British authorities. Alliance leaders are "clever enough" to real-
ize that popular support can be solidified through such a conflict
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The Alliance president has already stated that the present consti-
tution is "inappropriate and impractical."
Issues of racialism and religion, which
appeared to have had little appeal in the election, are not dead but
are subordinate for the moment to overriding anticolonial sentiment.
Comment: The Malay-Chinese-Indian
Alliance is a coalition of three political parties representing
Malaya's largest racial communities. It won 51 of the 52 seats
at stake in the elections and is therefore assured of a majority
In the legislative council no matter whom the high commissioner
selects for the 46 appointive seats. The Alliance is already on
record in favor of a more rapid transfer of power as well as
granting amnesty terms to the Communist terrorists.
3. Comment on Indonesian cabinet negotiations:
Vice President Hatta's appointment on
29 July of three cabinet formateurs in-
stead of one should speed the formation
ot a new government. The three men selected--former premier
Sukiman of the Masjumi, former premier Wilopo of the conserva-
tive wing of the National Party, and Assaat, a nonparty man who
leans toward the Socialist Party--are believed to be predisposed
to co-operate with one another.
The combination is well balanced from
the standpoint of Indonesia's numerous political factions and one
or another of the three will appeal to each of Indonesia's non-
Communist parties. All three are probably also acceptable to
the army--a vital necessity.
Hatta has indicated that the new regime
should concern itself primarily with settling the army problem
and holding national elections, which are scheduled for 29 Sep-
tember. If this limited program is accepted, the formation of a
new cabinet should not be too difficult and its membership con-
ceivably could be announced before President Sukarno returns
from Mecca on 4 August.
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4. Comment on Afghanistan demobilization:
The Afghan Ministry of National Defense
announced on 27 July an order for demo-
bilization which was to go into effect the
following day. This order is clearly the
result of the high cost of maintenance as
well as unruliness among conscripts in the four months of mobili-
zation. Prime Minister Daud's explanation was that there now ex-
ists "no probability of aggression."
The act will probably be presented to
Turkey and Saudi Arabia, both of which are still interested in
further mediation of the Afghan-Pakistani dispute, as an indica-
tion that Afghanistan continues to maintain a reasonable attitude
while Pakistan refuses to moderate its demands.
The fact that Daud was unable to main-
tain mobilization will probably cause a decline in his prestige.
From the beginning of the dispute with Afghanistan, Pakistan
has sought to undermine Daud's position.
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
5. Moroccan nationalist leaders term United States an "enemy":
Leaders of Istiqlal, Morocco's domi-
nant nationalist party, have told an
American correspondent that the United
States is a greater enemy than France
e viewpoint e nationalists, as it supplies the French
with weapons and connived in the deposition of Sultan Mohamed
ben Youssef in 1953.
The nationalists stated that since the
United States constructed its air bases without consulting the sul-
tan, they would reopen the question when they gained power. For
the time being, however, they will refrain from attacks on the
bases or American personnel in order to avoid being accused of
being pro-Communist.
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Comment: These statements9 while
obviously tailored for American consumption actually do re-
flect increased nationalist frustration over American support of
French policy.
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