CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A001700340001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 23, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUMMARY
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WESTERN EUROPE
4. Italian Foreign .Ministry fears nine-power London conference will
fail (page 5).
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4. Italian Foreign Ministry fears nine-power London conference
will fail:
conference might fail, like the Brussels meeting, unTess a firm
basis for agreement is established in advance through adequate
diplomatic soundings. The official felt the French proposals for
an EDC alternative, which he described as "full of discrimina-
tion against Germany," vaguely drafted and alluding only indirectly
to German admission into NATO, would only create confusion
and dismay.
A high official of the Italian Foreign
Ministry expressed the view to the
American embassy in Rome on 20
September that the London nine-power
The Foreign Ministry continues to be
suspicious of Mendes-France. It has expressed regret to the
French embassy that he has apparently agreed to having his
memoires published in a newspaper which the Foreign Ministry
describes as Communist.
Comment: Italian pessimism on the
nine-power conference is generally shared by other Western
European governments.
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army opposes Quwatli's return to power:
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the bulk
of-teSyrian army officer rps is now
opposed to the election of Shukri
Quwatli as president of Syria.
ter of the present officer corps participated in a coup that
overthrew Quwatli in 1949 and fear the consequences of his return
to power. One half of the corps entered the Syrian military acad-
emy after Quwatli's exile and were appointed from families not
sympathetic to him.
a quar-
Ambassador Ca.ffery in Cairo reports
that the real reason for
the Syrian prime minister's visit to Cairo was to convince Egypt
that his candidacy for the presidency has the backing of the
Syrian army. army support for Ghazzi
is based less on enthusiasm for him than on fear of Quwatli.
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This unexpectedly strong, last-minute
opposition to Quwatli could portend trouble on the occasion of
the parliamentary elections to be held on 24 September, It
seems more likely, however, that the army will allow the elec-
tions to be held but exert strong pressure to prevent the parlia-
ment elected from then choosing Quwatli as president.
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