CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1957/06/19

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03153702
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• Document Page Count: 15
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2019
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2019
• Publication Date: June 19, 1957

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CONTENTS
. PEIPING RELEASES OFFICIAL VERSION OF SECRET MAO
SPEECH (page 3).
\\,2. PEIPING PLANS LARGE WITHDRAWALS FROM TIBET
(page 5).
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3. MOCH RESISTS SOVIET NUCLEAR TEST SUSPENSION
PROPOSAL
(page 7).
4. YEMEN AND USSR IN NEW ARMS DEAL AS SOVIET TECH-
NICIANS ARRIVE (page 8).
5. COMMUNIST ARMS PROBABLY DESTINED FOR ALGERIAN
REBELS REACH NORTH AFRICA (page 9).
'1 6. JAPANESE UNITED ON KISHI MISSION TO US
(page 10).
7 JAPAN RESENTS SOUTH KOREAN STALLING ON DETAINEE
EXCHANGE (page 11).
8. PAKISTAN SEEKS UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON
KASHMIR ON 8 JULY (page 12).
9. NEW IRAQI PRIME MINISTER
(page 13).
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10. GREEK PRIME MINISTER CONTEMPLATING VISIT TO
EGYPT (page 14).
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1. PEIPING RELEASES OFFICIAL VERSION OF SECRET
MAO SPEECH
Comment on:
The text of Mao Tse-tung's 27 February
speech released by Peiping on 18 June was
described as being "based on the verbatim
record." In the interests of intrabloc har-
mony, Mao seems to have edited out cer-
tain passages and made some additions, with a view to minimiz-
ing differences in doctrinal viewpoints between the Chinese and
other Communists.
References to Hungary in the speech reflect
the sharp impression the East European disorders made on the
Chinese. Those disorders may have been the primary stimulus
to Mao's introspections on the so-called contraclictions in Chi-
nese society. As previously stated in press articles appearing
in Communist China and other countries, Mao stressed that
these contradictions were in the main "nonantagonistic" and
could therefore be resolved by education and persuasion rather
than by terror.
Despite this promise of a softer hand, the
text just released by Peiping shows that Mao was far from sound-
ing any retreat from Communist principles. By and large, he
supported Moscow's viewpoint on Hungary, laying the major blame
for last fall's events on "domestic and foreign counterrevolution-
aries." He justified past terrors employed by the Chinese Com-
munists as necessary to the times, although he admitted that
excesses had been committed in condemning innocent people. The
underlying mood of the speech is one of unbounding confidence in
the socialist system, which Mao called "far superior" to other
systems.
In the course of his analysis, Mao revealed
that considerable segments of the Chinese population are dubious
about Communist tenets and policy. He admitted that some in-
tellectuals are reluctant to accept Marxism-Leninism, but urged
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that they be given opportunities to work "as long as they com-
ply with the requirements of the state." Referring to cynicism
among Chinese students, Mao observed wryly, "Marxism, once
all the rage, is not so much the fashion now." After discussing
popular complaints concerning the hard lot of the peasants, Mao
promised that the amount of grain taxes and state grain would be
stabilized over the next few years. He confessed that student
and worker strikes had taken place in China last year and that
there had also been some "disturbances" among the peasants.
Mao accepted the principle that Marxism could
be criticized in China and affirmed his faith in the policy of let-
ting different schools of thought contend. But criticism was ac-
ceptable only if it came from friendly quarters; proper punish-
ment was to be meted out to those who "deliberately put forward
unreasonable demands...or spread rumors to create trouble."
Perhaps as a counter to the anti-Soviet over-
tones in unofficial versions of Mao's speech, the official text
closed with a tribute to the Soviet Union. While urging that
the Clhinese learn from all countries, socialist and capitalist, he
declared that the "main thing is still to learn from the Soviet
Union."
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2. PEIPING PLANS LARGE WITHDRAWALS FROM TIBET
Comment on:
Peiping has decided to withdraw at
least 25,000 Chinese Communist troops,
specialists, and "workers" from Tibet
t estern China,
Peiping has been maintaining 47,000
troops, 20,000 specialists, and numerous construction workers
in Tibet, where resistance to the regime has been widespread.
Housing facilities for approximately 25,000
persons are being arranged for at Lanchou, Chengtu and Hsining,
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