CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1951/07/11

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• Document Creation Date: April 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2019
• Publication Date: July 11, 1951

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SUMMARY
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French Foreign Office official urges concentration on main NATO
objectives (page 3).
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Chinese Communists press negotiations for Ceylon rubber (page
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Iranian Communists demonstrate in Tabriz (page 5).
German oil technicians ready to go to Iran (page 6).
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1. French Foreign Office official urges concentration on main NATO objectives:
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The US Embassy in Paris reports the opinions
of a pro-US Foreign Office official regardin3.3(h)(2)
the position of the NATO nations following
Malik's peace proposal. These views, which
are expected to have an important influence on the foreign policy of the
next French Government, are: (a) "the Malik proposal and the Soviet
willingness to have hostilities cease in Korea (at least for the present)
are solid and satisfying evidence of the correctness of the policies pursued
by the West"; (b) since the USSR's new "peace aggresd.on" aims to arrest�
and even reverse the trend toward an East-West military balance, an
argent need exists both to strengthen support for the major task of rearma-
ment and to avoid introducing into NATO deliberations the kind of questions
that would "diminish or diffuse such support"; and (c) the "major indis-
pensable task" facing NATO at present, aside from achieving the rearma-
ment goals of the various members, is to insure West Germany's contri-
Oution on mutually acceptable terms.
The French official believes that two problems
recently introduced into NATO discussions -- membership for Greece,
Turkey and Spain, and revision of the Italian treaty -- could prejudice rather
than contribute to the strengthening of the W st's position.
Comment: This report illustrates French
Foreign Office officials' use of every opportunity for exerting pressure
on the US to simplify NATO's immediate objectives. These officials will
continue to show their irritation at US proposals of new NATO aims, which
they often consider are due to over-eagerness and high-handedness on the
part of the US. Although there have been no indications of any tendency
in the French Foreign Office to relax the rearmament effort because of
the Soviet proposal, the task of French Government leaders who are de-
termined to press on with rearmament would be rendered much more dif-
ficult if a Korean armistice should be arranged.
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Chinese Communists press negotiations for Ceylon rubber;
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The Bank of Ceylon has received an inquiry
from the Chinese Communists regarding the
possibility of opening a 1007ninion rupee 3.3(h)(2)
(approximately 20 million dollars) letter of
credit to cover shipments of rubber to China. The bank expressed its
willingness to open a credit in this amount if full dollar or sterling
coverage were provided.
Comment This amount is sufficient to pur-
chase about 20,000 tons of rubber, or the equivalent of Ceylon's output
for two months. Following the loss of Malaya as a source of supply when
the British embargoed rubber shipments to China, the Communists looked
to Indonesia and Ceylon as alternate sources. Indonesia recently indi-
cated that it would ban shipments of rubber to China in compliance with
the UN embargo resolution. Ceylon, however, not being a member of
the UN, still permits the export of rubber to all destinations.
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4, Iranian Communists demonstrate in Tabriz:
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monstration in Tabriz on 6 July organized by
four agitators from Tehran drew aicout 2,000
persons, mostly unemployed and laborersc.
Speakers, claiming this would be the first of a series of meetings, attacked
US and UK "aggression" in Korea and recalled the "murder of their friends
by the Iranian Army" when the Soviet-supported Azerbaijan "democratic"
regime collapsed in December 1946. The US Consulate in Tabriz notes
that this is the first open support given even indirectly to the exiled "demo-
crats. "
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This open support by the Peace Partisans of the Soviet-
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sponsored Azerbaijan Democrats, when considered together with the more
aggressive tactics used by Communist-front groups in recent demonstrations
in Tehran, suggests that the Communisith are planning to employ a more
vigorous policy in Iran.
5., German oil technicians ready to go to hang
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As a result of newspaper advertizing in Ham-
burg, applications by Germans interested in
employment in the Iranian oil industry have
reportedly been coming in at the rate of twenty
per day. The German Federal Government has formally discouraged
Germans from accepting such appointments, and the UK High Commissioner
has been instructed by his government "to take all possible steps in con-
sultation with his colleagues and with German authorities to prevent Ger-
mamtechnicians from goingto Iran." The US and French High CommiS-
stoners have supported the British efforts to discourage Germans from
leaving for Iran, but are aware that their efforts will not be entirely effec-
tive.
Comment
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In view of the sarcity of available German
technicians, and also .ecause of the active interest of the West in dis-
couraging Germans from accepting such offers, it is doubtful that Iran will
get many German technicians.
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