CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: April 20, 1959
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Language of presidium birthday mes-
sage to Khrushchev reminiscent of O
adulation during Stalinist "cult of per-
USSR planning to hold bloc foreign min-
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Chou En-lai plays down Tibetan situa-
tion and stresses Sino-Indian friendship (J3
India - Nehru's Congress party appar-
ently losing popular support.
Yemen Crown Prince Badr and Nasir
agree that all foreign missions in
Yemen will be closed with representa-
tion to be conducted through Cairo.
Icelanders aroused over latest fishing
incident with Britain.
O Bolivia - Government apparently
has situation under control fol-
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
20 April 1959
DAILY BRIEF
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I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
its "leap forward" pro ram of raid economic develo ment and
social reorganization.
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Khrushchev: Praise for Khrushchev in the unprecedented
birthday greeting sent him by the party presidium is reminis-
cent of the adulatory language used to describe Stalin at the
height of the "cult of personality" period. Soviet leaders' 65th
birthdays are not normally noted with party greetings. The
message was signed by all full and candidate members of the
presidium except Ambassador to East Germany Mikhail Pear-
yukhin. apparently no longer a member of the nresiriium
USSR: Moscow is preparing a bloc foreign ministers'
conference in Warsaw, probably in April but certainly before
11 May, according to the Yugoslav Embassy in Moscow. The
-Yugoslavs believe the meeting, which may be attended'by Com-
munist China, is an expansion of an :earlier plan to have the
USSR, East Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia meet on the
German problem. The bloc foreign: ministers presumably will
reiterate the. Soviet position on major European problems with
the aim of strengthening the USSR's hand. in the Geneva confer-
ence opening on 11 May.
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Communist China: Chou n- is minimized the Tibetan
situation in his speech to the opening session of the National
People's Congress on 18 April. He claimed that Peiping now
is completely in control of Tibet and stressed the theme of
Sino-Indian friendship. The official summary of the 30,000?-
word. report suggests Peiping will actively seek to dispel the
growing belief that China is the most truculent member of the
bloc and indicates the Chinese Communist regime will continue
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II. ASIA-AFRICA
India: Despite major etoonomic advances during India's
First an Second Five-Year-Plan periods., Nehru's Congress
party apparently is losing popular support. In recent municipal
elections in the southern state of Madras., one of the Congress
party's strongholds., the party loist control of Madras city and
of most other large towns. In similar elections in Punjab state
in north India, where the party made a good showing in the na-
tional elections of 19579 it recently won only one third of 391
seats. Strenuous efforts by the high command to rejuvenate
the party evidently are not reversing this trend,
Yemen: Crown Prince Badr and Nasir have agreed that all
foreign diplo -tic missions in Yemen will be closed and that
representation will be conducted through Cairo. The move mayj
be aimed primarily at reducing Communist-bloc influence in
Yemen and suL'gestq the heretnfnrP nrn-Snviet Andr is fnltinc
in line with Nasir's anti- Communist campaign.
III. THE WEST
Iceland- Britain: The Icelandic parliament and public are
more aroused over th recent intervention of a British naval
vessel in preventing the arrest of a British trawler than at any
time since last September when Iceland extended its fishing
limit to 12 miles. With elections scheduled for this summer,
NL all political parties are seeking to appear as champions of
D Iceland's rights, and the Icelandic foreign minister says the
Communists have gained considerable ground as a result of
these incidents.)
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FS/ *Bolivia: A rightist revolution broke out briefly in La Paz
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the situation under control. The perennially plotting rightists
apparently hoped to take advantage of the deep division within
the governing Nationalist Revolutionary Movement., caused by
President Siles' efforts to carry out economic reforms. Bo-
0~-livials protracted economic crisis.is likely to cause further sudo.
den violent outbreaks by either rightist or leftist elements.,
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Io THE COMMUNIST BLOC
Chou En-lai's Report to the National People's Congress
Premier Chou En-lairs report to the opening session of the
National People's Congress on 18 April indicated that Commu-
nist China will continue its "leap forward" toward economic de-
velopment and social reorganization. According to the official
summary of 'the: 30,000-word report, Chou reiterated Peiping's
ultra-ambitious 195'9 targets for steel--18,000,000 tons., coal
--380,000,000 tons, food grains- -525,000,000 tons, and cotton
--5,000,000 tons. Although Chou insisted that the 1959 eco-?
nomic plan is founded on "practical possibilities," it neverthe-
less is based on extremely high claims for production in 1958
which- -at least in the agricultural field--are not credited by
Western observers.
Chou praised the communes as China's best means of speed-
ing up socialist construction and effecting the future transition
from a socialist to a communist society.
On the subject of Tibet, Chou claimed the situation now is
completely under Peiping's control but admitted that mopping-up
operations were continuing in "remote" areas. He played up
Sino-Indian friendship, stating that it should not be allowed to
be weakened by a "handful of Tibet rebels." Chou's report and
the Dalai Lama's indication on the same day that he would not
conduct a public feud with Peiping seem likely to put the Tibet
situation at rest for the time being.
No important new foreign-policy lines were.laid down,.. although
Chou's treatment of Asian-African nations suggests the regime
will actively seek to dispel the growing belief that China is the
most truculent member of the bloc. Chou repeated Peiping's
earlier criticism of the UAR's attack on the Soviet Union and
attacked the "hostile" policy of the Kishi government. He re-
peated--without any sense of urgency--the usual formulation
that Taiwan is Chinese territory which must be "liberated9" and
that plots to create "two Chinas" cannot be tolerated.
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II. ASIA-AFRICA
Indian Congress Party Continues to Lose Popular Support
Prime Minister Nehru's ruling Congress party recently re-
ceived two dramatic illustrations of loss of popular support: when
its candidates were repudiated in municipal elections in Madras
and Punjab states. The party lost its majority in Madras city,
the seat of the state government, and in most other large towns
in the state, despite the strong showing it had made in the na-
tional elections of 1957. The major gainer was the Dravidian
Progressive Federation, which won 45 out of 101 seats in Madras
city against the Congress' 37. The federation is a regional south
Indian partyof the lower classes, which opposes domination of
south India by the "Aryan" north, attacks rule by the Brahmin class,
and resents adoption of Hindi as the national language. The middle
and upper classes in Madras apparently were apathetic toward the
elections. In Punjab state, where the Congress party had also
done well in 1957, it recently won less than a third of 391 seats
at stake in municipal elections.
This trend away from the Congress party at the municipal
level is reflected in other parts of India. Despite strenuous ef-
forts by the party leadership since 1956 to improve organiza-
tional contacts at the grass roots, the party now has lost control
of three of the four largest cities in the country--New Delhi,
Bombay, and Madras--and controls Calcutta by only a bare ma-
jority. Awareness of this problem is shown by the fact that party
president Indira Gandhi has just postponed a trip to Mexico, pre-
viously scheduled for May., and has declined an invitation to Lon-
don in order to tour India on party business. Factionalism and
apathy presumably will be her major targets.
The recent voting trend also indicates that the major achieve-
ments of the Nehru government in economic development are not
being translated into political support. Madras state,. for instance,
has the best record of any state in India in implementing its plans
for economic development., and its capable, active Congress party
government had been preparing detailed long-range political and
economic plans for the 1962 elections.
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Iceland Aroused Over New Fishing-boat Incident With British
The intervention of a British naval vessel on 14 April to
pre nt the arrest of a British trawler operating within four
miles of the Icelandic coast has caused greater resentment
than any incident since last September, when Iceland unilat-
erally extended. its control over coastal waters for fishing
from fourth twelve miles)
Communist press and leaders, seeking to capitalize
on the incident for political purposes, have called for a sever-
ance of diplomatic relations with the UK. The Progressives
(agrarians) have joined the Communists in demanding the :re-
call of the Icelandic ambassador to Britain. The Conservatives
are demanding that the government introduce the matter for-
mally before the NATO Council. Consequently, Social Demo-
cratic Foreign Minister Gudmundsson is planning to explore
with the Icelandic ambassador to NATO the possibility of invit-
ing NATO Secretary General Spaak to come to Iceland and
review the situation
With elections mandatory if the constituency-reform bill
pass parliament, as is likely, the various political parties
are seeking to make the most out of the situation. The Commu-
nists in particular are seeking to appear as the most vigorous
champions of Iceland's right to extend its territorial waters. The
Conservatives, although they have supported the minority Social
Democratic government in parliament, feel they must also take
an uncompromising line in defense of Iceland's interests. The
Social Democrats, the smallest party in parliament and con-
cerned over their future as a labor party, will consequently be
inclined, particularly, in. view of the inflamed temper of par-
liament and the press, also to adopt an equally adamant attitude
toward the British)
The
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likelihood of British general elections this year tends
the Macmillan government's maneuverability on this
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Rightist Revolutionary Outbreak in Bolivia
A rightist revolution broke out in La Paz on the morning of 19
April,. _l utthe. government, apparently has the situation undercontrol.
The perennially plotting rightists apparently hoped to take 'advan-
tage of the deep division within the governing Nationalist Revolu-
tionary Movement. The division is caused by President Siles'
only partially successful efforts to carry out economic reforms
suggested by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in order to
secure renewal of the agreement between Bolivia and the IMF
on which US financial aid to Bolivia has been conditioned.
Bolivia's protracted economic crisis is likely to cause fur-
ther sudden violent outbreaks by either rightist or leftist elements.
Symptomatic of the government's economic straits resulting from
the virtual suspension of US aid was the fact that as of 13 April
the administration had paid public employees only 8 percent of the
salaries they have earned since 1 January.
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government depends heavily on irregular forces. President Siles
recently said that he thought his cabinet appointment for rural
Indian leader Jose Rojas would keep Rojas and his "5,000 rifles"
allied to him, thus guaranteeing government security. Sites em-
phasized that Rojas' followers plus the 2,000 pro-Siles miners
constituted the largest politically unified force in the country.
Some part of the army and police would also be likely to remain
loyal to Siles. The leftist faction of the MNR which has been op-
posing the government's economic reform measures appears to
have the allegiance of other civilian military elements,
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The Department of Defense
The Secretary of Defense
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