CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1955/08/23

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• Publication Date: August 23, 1955

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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CONTENTS
1� USSR MAKES MAJOR ADVANCE IN PHYSICS
RESEARCH (page 3).
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3. YUGOSLAVIA THREATENS TO STOP COMPLYING
WITH BATTLE ACT (page 5).
4. NEW COMMUNIST OFFERS OF AID TO AFGHANISTAN
REPORTED (page 6)�
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6, COMMENT ON DISORDERS IN MOROCCO AND ALGERIA
(page 8).
7. PARIS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT TALKS WITH MOROCCAN
LEADERS (page 9).
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1. USSR MAKES MAJOR ADVANCE IN PHYSICS
RESEARCH
Revelation by V. I. Velcsler, a top
Soviet physicist at the Geneva con-
ference on peaceful uses of atomic
energy, that the Soviet Union will
soon complete new equipment for high-energy nuclear
physics research indicates that the USSR will soon be
in a pre-eminent position in this field. Soviet scien-
tists will thus be enabled to perform experiments in
high-energy nuclear physics which cannot now be per-
formed in the West.
The USSR, according to the physi-
cist, is about to complete a 10 billion electron volt
(Bev) proton synchrotron (a particle accelerator) and
Is planning construction of a 50- to 100-Bev acceler-
ator. The Soviet Union recently also disclosed exist-
ence of a 680 million electron volt (Mev) synchrocyclo-
tron, another type accelerator--the highest energy
synchrocyclotron in existence.
The United States, long a leader in
this field, possesses two proton synchrotrons of three
and six Bev respectively. While 25- and 30-Bev units
are being planned in the United States and Western
Europe, none of these will be available for at least five
years. )1..epared by OSI)
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3. YUGOSLAVIA THREATENS TO STOP COMPLYING WITH
BATTLE ACT
Yugoslavia would renounce American
aid rather than continue to observe the
Battle Act, according to Yugoslav vice
president and economic chief Vukmanovic-
empo. u novic, who is heading an economic mission
to Moscow, told Ambassador Riddleberger, however, that
his government does not want to break the act hastily, but
that the act would have to be changed if it were to be a con-
dition for the continued economic aid and shipments of
agricultural surpluses which Belgrade wants.
Vnkmanovic said that the Yugoslav gov-
ernment will require new long-term credits at low interest
in order to relieve its deteriorating foreign exchange posi-
tion. He protested the West's high interest rates and said
that the USSR is prepared to grant credits for raw ma1e-
ria1sat2-percent interest, and gold loans at the same rate.
Although Vukmanovic would quote no amounts, Riddleberger
reports that the USSR is rumored to have offered loans
totaling $100,000,000 for a 10- to 12-year period.
Vukmanovic reiterated that Yugoslavia's
position is one of "independence, " declaring that his gov-
ernment has no secret policies which are unknown to the
United States.
Comment This is the toughest attitude toward
American economic aid yet displayed
by Yugoslavia. Ever since the Soviet visit to Belgrade,
Yugoslav officials have denied any intention of contravening
the Battle Act, stating only that their policy might have to
be reconsidered in the future. Belgrade showed an interest
as late as 12 August in obtaining from the United States for
this fiscal year between $34,000,000 and $40,000,000 in
economic aid, in addition to 24,000 tons of cotton and 600,000
tons of wheat under the surplus commodity act.
Although Yugoslavia may be trying to pres-
sure the United States into more favorable economic treatment,
the departure of Vukmanovic with a high-level Yugoslav eco-
nomic delegation to Moscow on 20 August demonstrates Bel-
grade's hopes of a really substantial offer from the Soviet
Union. (Concurred in by ORR)
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4. NEW COMMUNIST OFFERS OF AID TO AFGHANISTAN
REPORTED
The Soviet ambassador in Kabul, dur-
ing a meeting with Foreign Minister
Naim on 10 August, offered to provide
a medical mission for Afghanistan, ac-
cording to a reliable source of the American embassy.
Another embassy source reported that equipment valued
at $60,000 has been offered to the Kabul medical school.
In addition, Poland is reliably re-
ported to have offered materials, equipment, and tech-
nicians for installing water systems in Kabul and Qandahar.
On 16 August, however, when the American ambassador
asked Foreign Minister Naim about the projects, he pro-
fessed to know nothing about them.
Comment If these reports are true, the Soviet
bloc is evidently continuing to offer
Afghanistan as much trade and economic and technical
assistance as it will accept. The offer of a water system
for Qandahar would bring Communist influence south of
the Hindu Kush where Western influence traditionally has
predominated.
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6. COMMENT ON DISORDERS 114 MOROCCO AND ALGERIA
Disorders which erupted on 20 August
among the Berber tribes in central
Morocco and in eastern Algeria are
the most serious since the Rif rebel-
lion in the 1920's and appear to be the
first co-ordinated action of North African native terror-
ists. These activities suggest that the Moslems in North
Africa are capable of carrying out the directives of the
nationalist headquarters alleged to exist in Cairo.
DISTURBANCES IN ALGERIA AND MOROCCO
19-21 AUGUST 1955 PRELIMINARY PRESS REPORTS
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TOTAL TOTAL
ALGERIA
767
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836 222
MOROCCO,
405
100
505 230
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The latest esti-
mate of casual-
ties include more
than 1,300 dead,
of whom some
150 were Euro-
pean settlers.
Press reports
indicate that the
French army and
air force have
leveled whole
villages. Mili-
tary reinforce-
ments have been
flown to Morocco
from France, and
the army in both
Morocco and Al-
geria now appears
to have the violence
under control.
News of the atrocities committed by the
Moroccans, however, can be expected to bring retaliation by
French settlers, and excesses on both sides may complicate �
the conversations between the French government and Moroccan
leaders which were scheduled to commence on 22 August in Aix-
Les-Bains.
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7. PARIS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT TALKS WITH MOROCCAN
LEADERS
n 20 August Pierre July, French
mister for Morocco and Tunisia,
old an American official in Paris
hat by 27 August Paris should be
in a position to take definite decisions on the Moroccan
throne issue and inauguration of a reform program. He
emphasized that the government expects to reach speedy
agreement with Moroccan leaders at the Aix-Les-Bains
talks so that a Moroccan government can be established
Immediately.
July said that Resident General
Grandval is no longer thinking of resigning. He also
explained that Premier Faure's deadline of 12 September
for a settlement of the Moroccan dispute was set partly
in anticipation of the UN General Assembly session
scheduled for 20 September.
Comment The rioting in Morocco since July's
statement was made has strengthened
Faure's hand against his right-wing ministers, who in-
sisted that Sultan Ben Arafa try to form a representative
Moroccan cabinet. Faure is expected to meet the de-
mands of Moroccan nationalist leaders, who reportedly
will meet with French government spokesmen only if
assured first that (a) Ben Arafa will be replaced by an
acceptable regency council, and (b) France will recog-
nize the principle of eventual independence.
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