CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1956/09/21

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• Publication Date: September 21, 1956

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CONTENTS
1. BRITISH LABORITES ADVISE NASR ON SUEZ I
(page 3).
2. NASR SAYS HE WOULD OBSTRUCT ANY USERS' ASSOCIA-
TION CONVOY �I (page 4).
.3. SATELLITE PRESS REVEALS CONTRASTING REGIME
ATTITUDES TOWARD SOVIET CONTROL (page 5)
4. US CONSUL GENERAL AT HONG KONG COMMENTS ON
PEIPING'S EIGHTH PARTY CONGRESS (page 7).
5. NEHRU SENDS LETTER TO PREMIER CHOU ON BURMA
BORDER DISPUTE ) (page 8).
6. USSR WILL AID INDONESIA IN DEVELOPING PEACEFUL
USE OF ATOMIC ENERGY (page 9).
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1. BRITISH LABORITES ADVISE NASR ON SUEZ
British Labor Party leaders have sent
word to Nasr that the chief hope for a
solution of the Suez crisis rests with
the United States,
In advising Nasr to resolve promptly
any outstanding difficulties with the United States, the
Labor leaders cautioned that should the United States sup-
port the use of force, all the Conservatives and even many
�Laborites would back Eden. At present, the Conservative
Party is seriously split on the issue of using force, they
reported.
Comment while
�Diasr Deileves tne umtect States is
against the use of force in the Suez crisis, he believes the
United States intends to force his removal by economic
means.
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2. NASR SAYS HE WOULD OBSTRUCT ANY USERS'
ASSOCIATION CONVOY
Egyptian president Nasr told the
Ethiopian ambassador in Cairo
hat lithe Western
users' association should seek to
send a convoy of ships through the
'Suez Canal, Egypt would not shoot
at them but would simply move an-
other convoy into the canal. If a
ockage occurred as a result of this move, the blame
would fall on the Western association for having acted
without clearance of the Egyptian canal authority.
Comment
It seems doubtful that the Egyptian
authorities have yet decided on an exact
means for preventing the passage of a users' association
convoy, the trend
of Egyptian thinking at present is to avoid the use of force,
which might give the British and French a clearer excuse
for military action.
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3. SATELLITE PRESS REVEALS CONTRASTING REGIME
ATTITUDES TOWARD SOVIET CONTROL
Recent articles appearing in Satellite
newspapers express contrasting official
attitudes concerning relations with the
Soviet Union.
Polish press coverage of the current
Polish-Soviet Friendship Month is stress-
ing "the independence of countries in the
socialist camp" and playing down refer-
ences to the USSR. One Communist au-
thor went so far as to write that, in his
belief, Polish relations with "Socialist
multinational Russia" are not yet "fixed" and that "these re-
lations are only being formed and will find their proper equi-
librium!'
An almost opposite point of view is re-
flected by recent statements appearing in Albanian and Czech
party newspapers. Albanian officials, also celebrating Soviet
Friendship Month, came close to an open attack on the doc-
trine of "many roads to socialism:' Similar treatment was
accorded the question by an article in the Czech party daily,
Rude Pravo, on 7 September, which claimed that since the
present Czech regime is based on its alliance with the USSR,
attitudes toward the Soviet Union are not a fit subject for dis-
cussion, Every slander of friendly Czech-Soviet relations,
the paper said, is aimed against the existence of Czechoslo-
vakia.
These articles have all appeared since
the reported 3 September warning of the Soviet Union to the
Satellites which stressed that the USSR and not Yugoslavia
was the correct socialist model and which attacked the Yugo-
slav concept of the "independent roads" doctrine. The Polish
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regime apparently has not deemed it necessary to revise its
nationalist line. many Polish
Communist officials, who are willing to discuss frankly with
Westerners relations with the USSR, believe that there is a
need for a modification of Soviet-Polish relations, within the
framework of an alliance with the USSR.
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4. US CONSUL GENERAL AT HONG KONG COMMENTS ON
PEIPING'S EIGHTH PARTY CONGRESS
The most significant feature of the
Chinese Communist eighth party
congress, currently meeting in Pei-
ping, is its atmosphere of satisfaction
with past achievements and confidence
in future progress, according to Consul General Drumright
in Hong Kong. Complete endorsement of the present party
leadership as well as of domestic and foreign policies has
been qualified only by the admission of minor errors which
have been or are now being corrected.
The American official observes that
Mao Tse-tung and Liu Shao-chi have provided no evidence
of significant change in China's international policy. The
United States is portrayed as almost the sole obstacle to
lasting world peace.
The subject of Taiwan's "liberation" has
been played down. Mao has not mentioned it, and Liu only
briefly reiterated Peiping's conventional formula of using
peaceful means if possible and resorting to force only if
these means fail.
In view of the consul general, the speeches
have shown that the Sino-Soviet alliance remains firm, on the
basis of ideology and a mutually beneficial partnership. The
Chinese affirmed that this alliance was the "pillar of peace
in the Far East and the world." On behalf of the USSR, First
� Deputy Premier Mikoyan paid effusive tribute to the Chinese
for their "contribution to the theory of Marxism-Leninism:'
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5. NEHRU SENDS LETTER TO PREMIER CHOU ON BURMA
BORDER DISPUTE
a note written by Nehru
to Chou En-lai on the Sino-Burmese
border dispute,
Nehru told Chou
that he had discussed the border problem with the Burmese
foreign minister and that, while he did not wish to become
involved with the specific points of difference between the
two countries, he hoped China and Burma could settle the
matter peacefully in accordance with the "five principles,"
Nehru had felt that a "very informal"
approach by him might have to be made at some time in the
future because the issue of coexistence and other broader
principles were involved.
Comment Nehru, is sensitive about his relations
with Communist China, with 'which
India has unsettled border problems. He has presumably be-
come convinced of Burmese determination to resist Chinese
encroachments and has therefore felt it necessary to make
this mild intercession in Burma's behalf.
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6. USSR WILL AID INDONESIA IN DEVELOPING PEACEFUL
USE OF ATOMIC ENERGY
An agreement to co-operate in the peace-
ful use of atomic energy was included in
the $100,000,000 Soviet-Indonesian aid
agreement signed in Djakarta on 15 Sep-
tember. Under the terms of the agreement, the USSR will
train Indonesian technicians and co-operate in the use of
radioactive isotopes for medicine, science and engineering.
Announcement of the agreement may have a propaganda im-
pact favorable to the USSR in view of continuing Indonesian
concern over the Pacific nuclear tests.
The USSR began offering early in 1955
to train Indonesian technicians in the uses of atomic energy,
and Soviet ambassador. Zhukov indicated last April that the
USSR would conclude such an agreement "if the Indonesian
government so desires."
Indonesia is aware that it can participate
in the regional atomic and training center to be built by the
United States in the Philippines. The US offer was made
and accepted at the Colombo conference in Singapore in Octo-
ber 1955. Indonesia probably regards its acceptance of the
Soviet offer as balanced by the Colombo Plan project.
Indonesia has a Western-trained nuclear
physicist who has been designated to set up a technical center
at Bandung.
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
(Information as of 1700, 20 September)
Jordan's army chief Nuwar believes the
next Israeli attack in force against Jordan will come from the
Beisan area, near the Jordan River about 20 miles south of
Lake Tiberias, according to the American army attach�n
Amman. Nuwar said the Israelis have been sending patrols
into Jordan from that area.
Iraqi chief of staff Ratiq told the American
army attach�n Baghdad on 18 September that he was under con-
siderable pressure as a result of the Iraqi-Jordanian talks on
military aid to Jordan of 14-16 September. He said he would
have to decide in a few days whether to cancel the fall maneu-
vers of the Iraqi army and send a full reinforced division to pipe-
line station H-3 near the Syria-Jordan border as a political boost
to King Hussain. Rafiq said Iraq had reiterated to Hussain that
It would send a division to assist Jordan in the event of an Israeli
attack. The Iraqis feared, however, that to station a division in
Jordan now might provoke an Israeli attack. An increase of Iraqi
troops at H-3, where there are now between 2,500 and 3,000,
would serve not only to reassure the Jordanians, but also to place
Iraq in a position to intervene in Syria or Jordan in the event of
political developments in either country unfavorable to Iraa.
The Canadian cabinet was expected to approve
on 20 September the sale of 24 F-86 jet fighters to Israel. Sev-
eral months will be required to complete delivery.
The American air attach�n Rome reports
that seven French Ouragan jet fighters with Israeli markings
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passed through Rome and Athens in late August and early Sep-
tember en route to Israel. The attach�lso said that uncon-
firmed information indicate' l fhQ+ Tai1 hd1",=,1gliIrd3r1 filvaP
�Meteor jets from Britain.
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