CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1955/08/12

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• Document Creation Date: September 20, 2019
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2019
• Publication Date: August 12, 1955

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CONTENTS
1. REVISION OF UN RESOLUTION ON CHINESE
representation suggested (page 3).
2. BURMA probably will seek American loan (page 4).
3. PAKISTANS new cabinet (page 5).
4. TENSION OVER GOA may bring violence on 15 August
(page 6).
5. MOSLEMS IN MOROCCO may attack Christians and
Jews (page 7).
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1, REVISION OF UN RESOLUTION ON CHINESE
representation suggested:
British UN delegates repo-ted to Am-
bassador Wadsworth on 10 August
that the Foreign Office has suggested
altering the moratorium formula on
Chinese representation in the UN. The formula as al-
tered would read, "The General Assembly decides that
the time has not yet come to consider" the issue, instead
of the usual "The General Assembly decides not to con-
sider:,
The British feel that this proposed
change would prevent the Scandinavian and Arab-Asian
countries which have supported the moratorium in the
past from opposing it in the forthcoming General Assem-
bly. According to the British, any loss in votes for the
moratorium might have an "unfortunate psychological
effect."
Comment The moratorium proposal, which
postpones substantive consideration
of the Chinese representation issue, has maintained the
support of over 40 of the 60 UN members each year since
1950. The opposition, however, has been gradually pick-
ing up votes.
The suggested revision reflects the
official British view that the time is approaching when
Peiping must be admitted to the UN.
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2. BURMA probably will seek American loan:
Premier Nu told Ambassador
Satterthwaite on 9 August that
Burma's economic difficulties
are such that it will have to seek
a loan from the United States if its current efforts
to secure one from India prove unsuccessful. He
indicated that the amount needed was about $50,000, 000.
Nu said he personally would pre-
fer a program of further retrenchment, but his cabi-
net colleagues had convinced him that additional
cutbacks in expenditures might prove disastrous for
the government in the 1956 elections.
The premier emphasized several
times tha.t he was reluctant to ask the United States for
a loan. If Burma obtained such a loan, he said, he
would no longer feel clear in his conscience in giving
the United States advice.
Comment It is unlikely that India will grant
the loan sought by Burma
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3. PAKISTAN'S new cabinet:
Acting Governor General Iskander
Mirza and Prime Minister Chaudri
Mohammad All have chosen a cabi-
net they can easily dominate.
Serious doubts are already being
raised as to the ability of Chaudri Mohammad Ali, who
has been in poor health for several years, to carry out
the job of prime minister. The only new minister with
significant political following is 87-year-old Fazlul Huq,
whose United Front Party controls East Pakistan. Huq
is eccentric and personally ineffective but will probably
attempt to obtain increased autonomy for East Pakistan
as the price of his co-operation.
For the first time in several years,
a Hindu minister, Kamini Kumar Data, has been in-
cluded in the cabinet, apparently to secure the support
of the important minority group in East Pakistan.
H. S. Siihrawardy, leader of the
Awami League, will be in opposition to the government
despite attempts to get him to join the cabinet as deputy
prime minister. His popular appeal and political skill
will make the task of the new government doubly diffi-
cult.
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4. TENSION OVER GOA may bring violence on 15 August:
Rising tension between Portugal and
India and reports that 5,000 Indians
have already assembled near the
border of Goa have increased the pos-
sibility of serious trouble occurring
on 15 August, the anniversary of
India's independence.
The chief of staff of the Portuguese
army has arrived in Goa, and Lisbon has reportedly
warned New Delhi that India will be held responsible for
any violence.
The situation has been aggravated by
India's equivocal position. Although New Delhi has re-
fused to authorize the marches on Goa planned for 15
August and insists it favors only "peaceful" methods, it
has not indicated that it will use police or troops to stop
the marchers as it did last year. The British Foreign
Office believes that Nehru cannot afford to be less nation-
alistic than extremist groups agitating the problem, and
that. New Delhi therefore will almost certainly permit the
marches on 15 August.
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5. MOSLEMS 174 MOROCCO may attack Christians
and Jews:
French officials in Morocco expect
local Moslem demonstrations to as-
sume an anti-Christian and anti-
Jewish character. The police have
warned the French and Jews living
in the native quarters of Casablanca
to move.
The head of the World Jewish Congress
has told the American embassy in Paris of his concern that
nationalist activities in Morocco may become anti-Jewish.
He stated that many of the 250,000 Moroccan Jews fear a
"pogrom" and are moving from the rural areas into the
cities.
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