CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2002
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
FAR EAST
4. Comment on Chou En-lai's new overture to formalize relations
with Japan (page 5).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
5. Final break between Recto and Philippine president approaching
(page 5).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
6. Americali official assesses North African problem (page 6).
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FAR EAST
4. Comment on Chou En-laps new overture to formalize relations
with Japan:
On 25 July Chou En-lai publicly said he
hoped that Prime Minister Hatoyama
would send a "suitable representative"
to Peiping to discuss the normalization
of relations between Peiping and Tokyo.
Although the Chinese Communists on
occasion have asked to normalize relations, they have not pressed
Tokyo in recent months. This renewed effort is timed to take any
possible advantage of the atmosphere created by the announcement
that the United States had publicly agreed to hold talks with Com-
munist China in Geneva.
Chou's overture will increase popular
pressure on the Hatoyama government to restore normal relations
with Peiping. Hatoyamals response that he did not intend to send
a representative immediately but preferred to await for an accord
between the United States and Communist China conforms to Japan's
policy of co-operation with the free world. Japan has indicated,
however, that an official representative might be sent to Peiping
to negotiate on the repatriation of Japanese detainees.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
5. Final break between Recto and Philippine president approaching:
Senator Recto's virulent attack on Presi-
dent Magsaysay over Philippine recogni-
tion of Vietnam indicates that the two
men are headed for a showdown, accord-
ing to the American em assy in Manila. Magsaysay, in L eaction
to Recto's ceaseless and obstructive attacks on the administration
program, is reported to have instructed his senatorial supporters
to take a "gloves-off stand" against Recto. Some sources are pre-
dicting that the president will seek Recto's expulsion from the Na,
cionalista Party.
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The embassy comments that Recto's
position appears to reflect the mounting anxiety of the Nacion-
alista Party "old guard" over Magsaysay's increasing self-
assertion as senate elections approach..
Comment: Senator Recto, leader of
the ultranationalist faction of the Nacionalista Party, has been
engaged in a struggle with Magsaysay for party leadership since
the 1953 presidential election. Magsaysay's pro-American for-
eign policy has been the basic issue in the struggle. Their most
recent clash developed out of Recto's charge that the Philippine
government's recognition of Vietnam on 15 July was dictated
by the United States.
Recto is now reported ready to form a
new political party in preparation. for his expected campaign for
re-election to the senate in November.
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
6. American official assesses North African problem:
The French have achieved a precarious
success in Tunisia and a, lull in violence
in Algeria, but are faced with acute dif-
ficulty in French Morocco, according
to pre minary observations of Julius Holmes, American diplo-
matic agent in Tangier, upon completion of a trip through French
North Africa.
Holmes sees the key to the present im-
passe in replacement of the present sultan, who is unacceptable
to the Moroccans. He expects Moroccan turbulence to continue
and perhaps to increase as both nationalists and French settlers
attempt to influence Resident General Grandval. Further clashes
on the scale of those at Casablanca and Marrakech may even
make settlement of this issue of little avail, particularly if guer-
rilla operations in the Moroccan countryside develop as they
have in Algeria.
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He believes the three separate North
African problems are so interrelated that progress toward a
solution in one area requires simultaneous progress in the
other two. Unless there is early progress toward guaranteeing
both the continued presence of France in North Africa and satis-
faction of the reasonable aspirations of the North Africans, strife
and violence will increase and North Africa will be lost.
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