ECONOMIC - RAILROADS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 497
• Publication Date: March 24, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLAS, CATION RE 7RTCTPD
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY _ China
SUBJECT Economic ?? Railroads
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED shezg?-hai
DATE
PUBLISHED 6 January 1949
REPORT
CD NO.
DATE OF
DATE DISTroh 1949
NO. OF PAGES 1
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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CHASGR:s Ill S?7C1HWST CEmA RAIT.ROAD sj I
.Aware of the importance of the development of ccunnid.ations In the south-
vast, the Ministry of Cosstmnioa'-ions has decided t: oa_-rg? out the following two
large nmrojectes (1) merging of the Ethan, 3vangci-gveiohcnr, and Tunuan Railroads,
QA (2) repairing of the Szeohvaa??Ynanaa Railroad. Lie 'Weng-chih, chief of the
21*W3*6sWdl Ritilzlesv. Em+ae!, has been atsmmonaA tU the capitk.l for a die-
wAl,II - on the matter.
Regarding the first undertaking, the Bvaagsi?-Xveichow Railroad Bureau will
astow the responsibilities for two seationa, Tu-yua??-%~Iri-y .Ig had avai-7az3g--?
An-shim. Work is in progress on the first emotion and by th?e end of January
19169 should get as far an dvei-yang. The $'uu-ming Regional Railroad Bsaaan
will tab charge of the section from B'un-ming to An-shun. The Ministry has
granted 1,600,000 gold Yuan for our-toying the Hsunn-w l--Sa-shun section.
Within a short time, the Ministry hopes to reaumb work on the Szeohvan-
7Vama Railroad. The v`han-i (]Henan)--LTmg-ch'ang (Szechwan) seotiou of this
life jot= with the Ch'ssg-tn--Ch'ung-ah'ing section, forming a total length
of bas than ~O0 kilometers. 10.cst of the foundation for the entire its was
sampleted before the var. Tracks and scaffoldings, 7 r hosed in large gnanti-
tins frier the US, and ariginally intended for the repair al the Pei-p'ing-
1,iatslfg Railroad, he** been diverted to this proje--t.
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CENTRAL !NTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Indochina
SUBJECT Political
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily ?,ewepaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Saigon
DATE
PUBLISHED 22 October 191+8
LANGUAGE French
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DATE OF
INFORMATION 1948
DATE DIST. March 1949
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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SOURCE L'Zcho du Viet N. (Information requested,)
MI FOR CREATIlI'G V;BTRAMCSE PROVISI0RA.L ASSIIeffiL1S.S
The provisional Central. G.,:ernment of Viat Nan has prepared a bill estab-
lishing the organization, prerogatives, and functions of tho provisional as-
semblies of Piet Nam. This bill has been transmitted to the members of the
l Yuan revealed its mayor features to the French
council of Cochinchina. Genera
axd Pietmsese Councillors during the private meeting of 2 October 19118, held in
the palace of th President of the Goverment of South Viet gem. In nevapaper
artieles, certain of its provisions have been used as a pretext for accusing
the President of the Provisional Central. Government of dictatorial aims. We be-
this subs-.-t
lieve it is permissible to express our opinion on
The Provisional Cent--al Goveri0ent is arsicted by: (1) the Nigh Privy
;2) the Conned created by decree No 5 of 25 abase 1948- k r raP YeuaaillaC Economic
Fietlmseeee Aseembly; em (3) the P laic,. ,,,,..._ Cen
interests.
nal Central Vietnamese Assembly are to be
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s
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The members of the Prov
suffrage, 1.5 pQ'>' district for the regular members and five
elected by universal
nditions to be fixed by decree
d
er co
per district for the alternate mombere, un
of the president of the Provisional Central Goverment.
To prevent the recurrence of such charges by reactionaries, General Xuen
believed it necessary to give a denocratin basis to the future assembly by
adopting universal suffrage forte pele election ofeits mbbeers. wNowh ire vealom
suffrage is not freely enjoyed
being the case at present. The present political situation is too confused
and uncertain, and the popular state of mind too bewildered and vacillilati g
to permit the electors to mete a free and discerning choice. The _ policy
understanding pith Franc is still too negative, supported as it is by
proniaea w",%tified by France to permit the nationalist candidates -- who will
npbold this policy -- to prevail against the opposition. This opposition will
be able to rep the policy, candidates
for the ravages Of the anrrenttwaric
bons of the French policy, as well as
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for tr.1.,. n?.ectoral ?~: n,-tgn unn'old without ^oapl~r.1tions. Outside the
c !t3 , an _. ions under Franca: contt- 1, the campaign atll be prootically
lmpor.>'.;ible. TT. rest of the rnuntry, on the other 'hand. the opposition
candi'ates -111 be the ones to benefit by propaganda a preesum vh1ah, though not
orrs , will L,- ;:onetheleae effective and will assure their victory over their
opponents. The 'sat result will be that the Provisional Central Government will
find itself con4`.:onted by a hostile assembly whi^h -J11 thwart its action by
syetematc:: otac action instead of facilitating Ito task.
The "mberu of the Cen'.ral Assembly will be able to Interpellate the govern-
ment ether on general policy or on a specific point.
The interpellation can and to a vote of "no confidence," the text of which
will be tranamitted to the Prescient of the Provisional Central Government. The
latter will decid3, in cabinet meeting, what action take on the motion voted
by the Assembly. The government, acting both as jud. and party to the case,
will Issue a decision from which there is no appeal. But, in recognizing the
Assembly's right to pass a vote of "no confidence," while reserving to itself
the right to ignore such note, if it so decides, the government will be playing
a "no contest" game, wherein it runs no risk. Would it not be more logical to
accept the consequences of a principle which one has set or recognized himself'
As to the Provisional Joint Central Council of Economic Interests, the
presence of French members will be the object of bitter criticism on the part
of the Vietnamese. Their presence would be admi.esibr4 ;ruder the present state
of affairs, in which Coohinchina is still under colonial rule, if the jurisdic-
tion and the legal authority of the future council were limited to this country,
but this council will embrace all Viet Nam. In addition, it will be called to
deliberate on a number of specific questions. Now, the French membership in a
deliberative assembly of the Associated State of Viet Nan is irw mpatible with
the sovereignty of the latter. The fact that the French members are simply
appointed, instead of being elected, in no way detracts from the objection on
constitutional grounds to their presence is a deliberative assembly of Viet Nam.
Furthermore, the French of Tmd.ochina will never agree to their representa-
tives in any assembly being appointed. They clearly expressed this opinion on
the occasion of the appointment of the delegates to the Assembly of the French
Union art of the one Councillor of the Republic allotted to them. They have
dwaindei that the principle of election be re-established, but appointments
continue, not, as they obstinately maintain, from trickery or abuse, but through
the morn application of the provisions of the French constitution. These pro-
vioions must be modified, if onG wishes to replace the appointment system with
that of election. The election system is also nontrary to the principles of
constltut4onal and international public law.
dscou se to universal suffrage seems to us no more advisable in electing
the Vietnamese members of the 'ouncil than in electing Vietnamese members of the
Contra]. Assembly.
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