ASIAN SOCIALIST CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES FOR 1954

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• Document Release Date: June 26, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Burma/Indonesia/India/North Africa
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Asian Socialist Conference
Activities for 1954
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The following is an outline of Asian Socialist Conference activites for 1954.
1. The Secretariat will actively engage in controlling and directing political
movements in Asian countries and. in certain African territories. In the next
few months, concentration will be shifted from French to British and Belgian.
colonies.
2. A Pan-African Socialist Conference is being planned for 1954. Kwame Nkruma's 1
Gold Coast Convention Party and the Libyan Socialist Party will sponsor this
conference which is to be similar to the Asian Conference. Asians will show
solidarity with the Africans by sending Burmese Defense Minister BA SWE, Sutan
Sjahrir of Indonesia2, and Jai Prakash Narain of India. The object in support-
ing the African Socialist movement is to keep the African Socialists away from
the east and west power blocs and to "explode the myth of communism's love for
freedom of the colonial people".
3. Colonel Wijono of Indonesia, Secretary General of the Anti-Colonial Bureau,3
is now in Cambodia to "contact democratic freedom movements". He is also work-
ing in Laos, and plans to enter French held territories if a visa is obtainable.
A group of Cambodian Socialist leaders recently contacted the Bureau through
special emissaries.
4. The Anti-Colonial Bureau will convene a conference of economic experts in
Indonesia in April 1954. A preparatory study committee of economic experts
of India, Burma and Indonesia is to be appointed soon, and will probably
include KYAW NYEIN.4 The main purpose of the conference will be to consider
economic cooperation among neutralist Asian countries in terms of "mutual aid
and aid that comes from developed western countries". It is planned that the
conference will tell Asian countries on what terms to accept foreign aid and how
to distribute the aid once it is received. .
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5. Other activities of the Anti-Colonial Bureau will include:
a. The preparation of a detailed study of socio-economic conditions in the
colonies and the dispatch of study missions to British and French colonies
in Asia and Africa.
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b. The direction of a campaign to instruct Asian settlers in Africa to identify
themselves with the cause of the local people.
c. The direction of a propaganda campaign to influence countries in the United
Nations to raise issues in which the Asian Socialists have particular
interest.
d. The organization of "peaceful international brigades" for direct action in
areas where there is peaceful resistance against colonial or dictatorial
administrations. These brigades will not be sent where there is armed
conflict.
1. Kwame Nkruma is the leader of the Gold Coast Convention Party and Prime
Minister of the Gold Coast Government.
2. Sutan Sjahrir is head of the Indonesian Socialist Party.
The Asian Socialist Conference at Rangoon in January 1953 adopted eight
resolutions. A recommendation that an Anti-Colonial Bureau be created as
part of the Secretariat of the Asian Socialist Conference was included in
the resolution on Freedom Movements in the Colonies. This resolution was
adopted at the final plenary session of the Asian Socialist Conference on
15 January 1953.
4. U KYAW NYEIN is the Secretary-General of the Anti-Fascist Peoples Freedom
League, the coalition now controlling the Government of Burma.
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