CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 8, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUMMARY
GENERAL
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1. Mendes-France presses for Western demarche to USSR
(page 3).
Moscow embassy doubts wisdom of en es- ranee proposal
(page 4).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
5. Indonesia decides to recognize Indochinese states (page 5).
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1. Mendes-France presses for Western demarche to USSR:
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Premier Mendes-France stressed to
Ambassador Dillon on 5 January the
"necessity" that some progress on
diplomatic preparations for an East-
West conference be made before mid-February, when the Coun-
cil of the Republic is expected to be ready to vote on the Paris
accords. The premier said he would prefer a tripartite demarche
calling for a conference in May. If this cannot be agreed on, Paris
will make a unilateral demarche.
Mendes-?France also stressed the impor-
tance of achieving some success in the forthcoming negotiations
on an arms production pool. He said that a breakdown of these
negotiations before the Council of the Republic acts on the Paris
accords would be "catastrophic:,
Comment: Although Mendes- France has
pr ofessed to see no hope for aiitful meeting with the USSR, some
of his closest advisers are convinced that a genuine East-West un-
derstanding is not only possible, but necessary for the success of
the French economic program to which the premier is committed.
The draft proposal for an arms produc-
tion pool which France has now circulated to the other Western
European Union countries apparently goes considerably beyond
what the other countries had been led to expect. Consequently,
the negotiations on this subject which are scheduled to start on 17
January may be much more difficult than even Mendes-,France an-
ticipates.
Chances are still good, however, that the
Council of the Republic will approve the Paris accords in February.
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3. Moscow embassy doubts wisdom of Mendes-France proposal:
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The American embassy in Moscow be-
lieves that Mendes-France's latest pro-
posal for a four-power conference in May
would be interpreted by the Soviet leaders
as a clear indication o The effectiveness of their present line of
intimidation. It would give Moscow an excellent opportunity to re-
assert its firm opposition to negotiations on Germany and Austria
after ratification of the Paris agreements. The USSR would frame
its answer--either outright rejection or a suggestion that ratifica-
tion be postponed--to have the greatest detrimental effect on the
decision of the French Council of the Republic.
The embassy emphasizes that the Soviet
government, while very careful not to reject the principle of nego-
tiations, has repeatedly asserted that there would be no point to
talks on Germany and Austria after ratification.
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
5. Indonesia decides to recognize Indochinese states:
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The Indonesian cabinet decided on 5 Janu-
ary to extend de jure recognition to Laos,
Cambodia and North Vietnam and de facto
recognition to South Vietnam, according
to the Djakarta press.
Comment: Indonesia would be the first
nation outside the Soviet Orbit to extend de jure recognition to
North Vietnam.
Djakarta's consideration of the recogni-
tion problem may have been accelerated by the forthcoming Asian-
African conference, to which all four Indochinese regimes are to
be invited.
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Of the other Colombo powers, which are
sponsoring the conference, Pakistan, Ceylon and Burma have
recognized Laos and Cambodia while India has extended full recog-
nition only to the latter. Pakistan has, in addition extended de
factp recognition to both North and South Vietnam.
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