FOREIGN PRESS BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: July 25, 1960
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FOREIGN PRESS
BULLETIN
25 J UL 60
Selected news items primarily on
the Sino-Soviet Bloc from latest
available foreign press
Foreign Documents Division
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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Foreign Press Bulletin is a daily publication of the Foreign Documents
Division giving press items of current interest which, to our knowledge,
have not been reported by other media. The items are grouped by subject
category.
POLITICAL
PRO-COMMUNIST HEAD OF FRENCH ZIONIST FEEERATION RESIGNS -- Tel Aviv, Davar,
3 Jul 64
Paris, 2 July 1960 -- The executive body of the Zionist Fe era ion o.
France has accepted the resignation of Andre Blumel as its president. B1iamel.'s.,
recent visit to the GDR, followed by publication of articles sympathizing with
the regime and his appearance at public meetings of the French Jewish Com-
munists, caused friction with the leaders of various Zionist parties affili-
ated with the federation. His refusal to abstain from joint activities with
anti-Zionist groups finally forced his resignation. He will, however, remain
a member of the executive committee.
foment: The Tel Aviv daily Herut of 4 July 1960 expressed surprise
that Blumel, who became president of the Zionist, Federation in 1955,
have held the post so long "in view of the increasing resentment against his
Con?nunist tendencies." He is also vice-president of the France-USSR Associ-
ation and recently visited the USSR in this connection. According to the
Paris independent daily Le Monde of 5 July, the Zionist Federation of France
issued a cormnunique announcing with regret Blumel's resignation as presi-
dent of the federation" and expressing "most sincere thanks to Blumel for
his devotion and great service to the Zionist cause." The Paris Communist
daily L'Humanite, which has reviously reported on Blumel's activities, did
not mention his resignation
EAST GERMAN DISCUSSES CEMA MULTILATERAL CLEARING SYSTEM -- Berlin, Der
Aussenhandel, No 10~ May 60, pp 21-22
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The CEMA (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
ing system was established about 3 years ago, but except for a few isolated
multilateral clearings, payments have continued to be settled through bilateral
clearing. Doubtless, bilateral clearing has played a great role in the de-
velopment of our foreign trade and the socialist world market; however, it
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sets certain limits to the development of foreign trade and has to be
supplemented by multilateral clearing among socialist countries. Full
utilization of all the possibilities of the international socialist division
of labor and a corresponding expansion of commodity trade will become possi-
ble only if in the payments relations new forms are used which facilitate
this development. Therefore, the CEMA multilater4 clearing system is be-
coming increasingly important and should attract the attention of theory and
practice more than heretofore.
Comment: Details will be given in External Economic Relations of
Bloc Countries (20)j
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POLAND TO EQUIP ITS OCEAN-GOING SHIPS WITH RADAR -- Warsaw, Trybuna Ludu,
10 Jul 60
The Polish Ministry of Communications recently announced plans to
nstall domestically manufactured radar equipment on ocean-going ships
hortly after 1961. This equipment has passed the experimental stage and
is now being tested.
USSR TRANSPORTATION IN FIRST HALF OF 1960 -- Moscow, Gudok, 13 Jul 60
In the first half, of 1960, USSR transport hauled more freight and
accounted for more freight turnover than in the same period of 1959. Rail-
roads carried 921 million tons of freight, an increase of 7 percent over
the same 1959 period,; produced a freight turnover of 736 billion ton-kilo-
meters, an increase of ,5 percent, and fulfilled the plans for these two
indexes 102 percent. Electric and diesel motive power accounted for 41.5
percent of the total railroad freight turnover, i.e., 37 percent more than
in the corresponding 1959 period.
River transport moved 83 million tons of cargo, an increase of 9 percent,
accounted for a cargo turnover of 38 billion ton- kilometers, an_ increase
of 10 percent, and fulfilled the cargo transportation plan 104 percent and
the turnover plan 103 percent.
Common carrier motor transport hauled 714 million tons of freight, an
increase of 25 percent, produced a cargo turnover of 11 billion ton-kilo'
meters, an increase of 23 percent, and fulfilled the cargo haulage plan
106 percent and the turnover plan 103 percent, respectively.
Pipelines pumped 61 million tons of products, an increase of 18 percent,
produced a cargo turnover of 25 billion ton-kilometers, an increase of
29 percent, and fulfilled the pumping plan 105 percent and the cargo turnover
plan 106 percent.
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Comment: Although the USSR hauled more freight and produced more
freight turnover than ever before, the rate of increase in the first
6 months of 1960 over the same 1959 period declined from that of Manuary
June 1959 over the corresponding 1958 period. Thus, for railroad. freight
turnover it was 7 percentage points less, for river cargo turnover, 5 per-
centage points less, and for common carrier motor freight turnover, 7 per-
centage points less. However, it was Up 5 percentage points for pipeline
cargo turnover)
CHINESE EXPERT FINDS MOROCCO SUITABLE FOR GROWING TEA -- Peiping, Jen-min
Jih-pao, 7 Jul 60, p 6
With the aid of Chinese experts, Morocco, a great tea-consuming
ation (about 1+,000 tons annually, mostly imported from China),, has dis-
overed land suitable for growing tea domestic.lly. In 1959, at the in-
itation of the Moroccan government, China sent a tea-growing expert, and
C PYRG HT soil expert to l45 key areas in eight Moroccan provinces who discovered
ver 98,000 hectares suitable for growing tea.. These inspection tours
ere personally arranged by the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture. A French
ewspaper ridiculed the Chinese experts and insisted that Morocco was un
uited for growing tea. Previously, in 1958, Morocco had invited UN tea
xperts from the Netherlands; however, being armchairspecialists, they
roposed that commercial tea orchards not be established immediately.
CBThESE INCREASE NATIONAL GRAIN TAX AND PURCHASES OVER 1959 -- Peiping,
Ta Kung Pao, 27 Jun 60, p 2
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Up to 22 June 19 0, the amount of summer grain purchased and collected
for tax purposes by the state increased-51 percent over the same period in
1959. The purchase, tax collection, and storage of the summer grain crop
of winter wheat production areas throughout China is at a peak. Hupeh and
Chekiang provinces fulfilled their summer grain purchase and tax collection
quotas ahead of schedule and Szechwan and Hopeh provinces have fulfilled
their plans over 70 percent. Shantung, Honan, Shensi, Kiangsu, Anhwei, and
Shansi provinces are storing large volumes of grain.
DAIREN AREA INDUSTRY CONVERTS TO COAL GAS -- Peiping, Hua-hsueh Kung-yeh,
No 10, 21 May 60, p 18
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The 66 boilers used by the heavy industry system of Lu-ta (Dairen-
Port Arthur) are now all being fired by coal gas; this change-over is
resulting in large savings in coal and manpower. For example, by using
this fuel, the Lu-ta Potassium Chlorate Factory is saving 5,000'metric
tons of high-grade coal and 430,000 kilowatts of electricity annually. and.
is achieving a 40-percent reduction in manpower.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE UNIVERSITY ESTABLISHED IN NORTH CHINA -- Peiping, Pei-ching
Jib-pao, 27 Jun 60, p 3
To meet the demand of the various provinces, municipalities, and
autonomous districts in-northern China for trained, red, and specialized
theoretical research workers and political and theoretical teachers for
colleges and, specla].ized schools, Hopeh, Shansi, Inner Mongolia, and
Peiping have jointly established a new social science university; the
Rua-pei (North China) People's University. In 1960, the !-year university
will temporarily have only the schools of philosophy, political economy,
and history, but in the future, the. Chinese-language, foreign.-languages,
and education schools will be added'. Each school will teach more than 20
subjects.
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL
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EAST, WEST NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTERS TO EXCHANGE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS -- Paris,
L'Humanite, 19 Jul 60
The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna near Moscow has
just made an agreement with the CERN (Centre European de Recherche Nucleaire,
European Nuclear Research Center) in Geneve to exchange three scientists.
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