CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1951/03/23

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03176551
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: March 18, 2019
• Document Release Date: March 28, 2019
• Publication Date: March 23, 1951

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SUMMARY
GENERAL
1. Threatened split in Western position on CFM agenda item (page 3).
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4. French Communists seek general strike to block rearmament
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GENERAL
1. Threatened split in Western position on CFM agenda item:
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The British and French representatives
at the Paris conference have admitted
to US Ambassador Jessup that if the 3.3(h)(2)
Soviets propose discussion of "the de-
militarization of Germany" as a separate and first point under the
primary agenda item "an examination of the causes of Present
tension in Europe," they would probably have to acquiesce. Jessup
has pointed out that the Western powers would then be accepting
the Soviet thesis that the demilitarization of Germany is the biggest
obstacle to peace and that, by such acceptance, they would be casting
doubt on the Brussels decisions. According to Jessup, the issue may
be forced either by the British and French or by Gromyko, who might
present it along with a concession designed to split the Western
powers.
Comment: A 21 March Pravda article
quotes a well-informed French columnist as stating that the French
and English want the question of the demilitarization of Germany
included in the agenda but that the US is opposed. The article char-
acterizes the Soviet proposals on German demilitarization and Four
Power arms reduction as the limit of Soviet concessions.
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4. French Communists seek zeneral strike to block rearmament:
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top leaders
of the French Communist Party and the
Communist-led General Labor Confederation
met on 21 March and laid plans for converting the mounting strike wave
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into a nation-wide general strike, having as its theme an end to arms
production and the resignation of the Queuille Government. Leaders
of the French Christian Workers' Confederation state that the Com-
munists have nearly succeeded, contrary to the expectations of Com-
munist and non-Communist labor leaders alike, in setting off a general
political strike movement "dangerous" to the French Government and
"comparable" to the 1936 strikes.
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Comment The current strike movement
Is generally considered to be based on legitimate economic grievances.
Although it has gained sufficient headway to give the Communists their
best opening in France since 1948, failure of the French Communist
Party's over-all strategy can be expected because of firm government
counter-measures and the break-down in cooperation between Commu-:-
nist and non-Communist labor unions.
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