CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1955/08/21

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
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• Document Creation Date: September 20, 2019
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2019
• Publication Date: August 21, 1955

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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CONTENTS
1. INDIA SEEKS VISIT BY PRESIDENT EISENHOWER
(page 3).
2, JAPANESE OPPOSITION TO REARMAMENT SEEN
DIMINISHING (page 4).
3. AIR OBSERVATION UNCOVERS NO UNUSUAL
ACTIVITY IN NORTHEAST CAMBODIA (page 5).
4,
SULTAN
(page 6).
MOROCCAN
5. COMMENT ON MUTINY IN SOUTHERN SUDAN (page 7).
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1. INDIA SEEKS vErr BY PRESIDENT ED3ENHOWER
Secretary General Pillai of the
Indian Foreign Ministry told Am-
bassador Cooper on 16 August
that Prime Minister Nehru is
deeply interested in having President Eisenhower
visit India and other countries of Asia.
Pillai noted that the President
has been to Europe and that no American president
has ever come to Asia. A visit at this particular
time, he said, would be of greatest benefit to both
the United States and Asia.
Comment Ever since Nehru's trip to the
United States in 1949, the Indians
have hinted at the desirability of a return visit by an
American president.
Soviet premier Bulganin has ac-
cepted an invitation to go to India, and is expected to
do so this winter. The request for a visit by Presi-
dent Eisenhower is probably inspired by a desire to
promote India's position as a bridge between the
United States and the Communist bloc. It is also in
line with recent Indian emphasis on the President's
contributions to world peace.
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2. JAPANESE OPPOSTTION TO REARMAMENT SEEN
DIMINISHING
The Hatoyama government's strong
appeals to national pride for a de-
fense'build-up Duty be reducing popu-
lar opposition to rearmament, ac-
cording to Ambassador Allison. With growing boldness,
the prime minister and others have taken the line that
a defense build-up is necessary to free Japan from de-
Pendence on "foreign troops."
Hatoyama now has publicly asserted
that he desires a popular mandate to revise the consti-
tution. Furthermore, Defense Agency Director Sunada
has publicly offered proposals which range from creation
of a Defense Ministry to advocation of production of hydro-
gen and cobalt bombs.
Allison notes that these statements
have received a minimum of criticism, in contrast to
last year when less inflammatory ones aroused wide-
spread critical comment.
Comment The Hatoyama government has recog-
nized that warnings of possible Com-
munist aggression have been ineffective in stimulating
sentiment in favor of rearmament. By picturing a del-
fense build-up as a prerequiSite to the withdrawal of
American forces and revision of the US-Japanese se-
curity treaty, the government has not only produced an
effective incentive for rearming, but has stolen some
of the Socialists" thunder on these popular objectives.
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3. AIR OBSERVATION UNCOVERS NO UNUSUAL
ACTIVITY IN NORTHEAST CAMBODIA
Aerial observation on 18 August
uncovered no unusual activity in
the Voeune Sal area in northeast
Cambodia, according to the Ameri-
can army attache in Phnom Penh.
Cambodian army authorities said they anticipated a
new attack by five Viet Minh battalions in that area.
The attach�elieves the govern-
ment's failure to request an investigation by the Inter-
national Control Commission of earlier attacks on the
Cambodian outpost may indicate that earlier reports
were exaggerated.
Remnant elements of Viet Minh
units are known to be in hiding in the area and in
south Laos, but the attach�oubts that there are five
battalions�or even one.
Present Cambodian strength at
Voeune Sal is estimated at 1150.
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MOROCCAN
SULTAN
Comment
Although the removal of Ben Arafa
might temporarily appease the
Moroccan nationalists and gain their co-operation for
Resident General Grandval's reform plans, it could also
be expected to lead to violence by the counterterrorist
organization of the French settlers,
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5, COMMENT ON MUTINY IN SOUTHERN SUDAN
The mutiny on 17 August of three
companies of the Sudanese army
was probably the result of Egy*
tian attempts to arouse the fears
of the southern Sudanese that they
would he dominated by the Moslem north should the
Sudan opt for independence.
The mutinous units, which comprise
half the fighting strength of the 800-man Equatorial Corps
of the Sudan defense force, are made up of southern en-
listed men commanded by northern officers.
The long-term effects of the mutiny,
particularly the killing of southern soldiers in a company
which refused to disarm, are likely to be serious for re-
lations between the northern-dominated government and
the southern tribesmen. Cairo will almost certainly
use these incidents, aa it used the riots in southern
Sudan last month, in claiming that stability in the Sudan
and protection of the southerners can be secured only by
union with Egypt.
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