CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1951/08/18

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02623660
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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: April 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2019
• Publication Date: August 18, 1951

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British opposed to extending UN General. Assembly's security role
(page 3).
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Chinese Nationalist forces in Burma min Dose problems.bage 5).
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.`"-- 6. Syrian cooperation with West appears to depend on Israeli compliance
with 18 May resolution (page 6).
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7. High Commissioners favor rebuke to Germans for recalcitrant
attitude (page 7).
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L British, opposed to extendingu.General Assembly',s,qecurity roLe 3.3(h)(2)
The US Representative on the UN Collective
Measures Committee sees a basic British dis-
agreement with the US policy of extending the
UN General Assembly's responsibilities for
security, under last fall's "uniting for peace" resolution.
The UK representative on the Collective
Measures Committee reportedly stated that Britain never liked the resolution,
and was pushed into it only by US insistence. The UK objects, he said, to the
fundamental American concept that the UN should have at its disposal the
means for maintaining peace, pending the conclusion of agreements between
member countries and the Security Council under Article 43 of the Charter.
The resolution provides for the prior designation of national military contin-
gents for use by the UN in emergencies. He expressed the view that so long
as the Security Council is unable to function, there should be no further
efforts to make the UN effective as a collective security agency. 3.3(h)(2)
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4. Chinese Nationalist forces in Burma again pose problemp:
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General Li Migs Chinese Nationalist forces,
which were repently defeated by the Chinese
Communists 'ix Yunnan and driven back into
Burma, are disintegrating. Furthermore,
their looting of Burmese villages is arousing
Intense resentment among the local people.
The Burmese War Office has confirMed,
information, according to the Ua.ArabaSsador,IngAsept-ank 7edndi had
reinforcements from its forces fighting Communist iltsurgents in centrie
Burma to the border areas in order to control the Nationalists. The Am-
bassador comments that in view of these developments, it would not be
surprising if Burma "soon again raises the problem" posed by the Nationalist
violations of Burmese twitory.
Comment: In April the Burmese threatened
to submit the Nationalist problem to the UN for action. They were dissuaded
at the last moment in part by a Taipei assurance that the Nationalists would
be ordered into Yunnan, In addition, it was pointed out to them that elevation
of the question to the sphere of international discussion would provide Com-
munism with a highly exploitable propaganda topic.
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S fan cooperation with West a
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Current Syrian cooperation with the West will
depend largely on gaining Israeli compliance
with the UN Security Council resolution of 18
May concerning the Syrian-Israeli boundary
dispute. Pointing to recent Syrian- Parliamenta.ry sympathy for Egypt in its
difficulties with Britain, the US iviinister in Dantastus asserts that the Syrians
would back Egypt's citation of. Israeli non-compliance as a precedent for its
Intransigence on the Sues Ciihal restrictions. He is also concerned lest the
new Syrian Cabinet, which he believes can now be counted on to cooperate
with the US, should shift its present Western orientation because of a feeling
that the UN had glossed over Israel's failure to comply With its instruetions,
Israeli non-compliance with cer-
tain provisions of the 18 May resolution as worried the US, the UX and
Frame, who are currently attempting to persuade Egypt to lift its restrict
Hone on Sues Canal traffic. 'Although there is some sentiment for an imme-
diate Security Council debate on the Israeli-Syrian dispute, no action is ex-
pected soon. General Riley, Chief of Staff of the UN Truce Supervision Or-
ganization, plans to file an Interim report on the situation and then return to
the, area to carry out further negotiations with the two parties,
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High Commissioners favor rebuke to Germans for recalcitrant attitude:
The three Western High Commissioners in
Germany are concerned over the manner in
which Vice-Chancellor Blue cher,. oPPoSition
leader Schumacher and other German officials
are w 'aping up erman public opinion against the fulfillment of German
obligations to the European community.
The Commissioners are agreed that imme-
diate consideration must be given to the issuance of a high-level announce-
ment stating that the establishment of a new relationship between the Allies
and the Germans is not a foregone conclusion., but rather is dependent
upon the manner in which Germany assumes and discharges its obligations.
Unless the present trend is checked, US High Commissioner McCloy sees
no possibility of concluding contractual arrangements to replace the occu-
pation regime.
Comment: The Germans have lately given
vent to strong resentment against allied decisions, particularly those re-
jecting a reduction of Germany's coal export quota and insistipg Oh full pay-
ment of occupation costs. Bluecher threatened to resign as representative
to the Ruhr Authority where he was defeated on the coal issue, and even
the conservative press has been talking in terms of the "disastrous" Allied
policies, the "high political tension" in Bonn, and the probability of an
internal German political and economic crisis.
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