CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1957/06/12

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• Publication Date: June 12, 1957

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CONTENTS
)A 1. EGYPT TO ABOLISH MILITARY ATTACHES OFFICE
P IN SAUDI ARABIA (page 3).
dg, 2. JAPANESE RAILWAY WORKERS TO STRIKE ON 13-14
JUNE (page 4).
3. LAOTIAN PREMIER-DESIG7TE OUTLINES FIRMER
POLICY TOWARD PATHETS
(page 5).
or 4. AMBASS � R RIDDLEBERGER COMMENTS ON YUGO-
SLAV POSITION (page 6).
5. SOVIET SCIENTIST PREDICTS EARTH SATELLITE LAUNCH-
ING "WITHIN NEXT FEW MONTHS" (page 7).
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1. EGYPT TO ABOLISH MILITARY ATTACHETS OFFICE
IN SAUDI ARABIA
Egypt has decided to abolish the office
of its military attach�n Saudi Arabia
all future correspond-
ence pertaining to the Arab Joint Command and to the Egyp-
tian military mission in Saudi Arabia would be sent to the
Egyptian embassy in Jidda in the diplomatic pouch.
Comment Cairo's decision is yet another i-.3f1ec-
tion of the deterioration in Nases rela-
tions with "allied" Arab governments. The Egyptian military
attach�n Saudi Arabia was compromised by the recent dis-
covery of a cache of arms and explosives�which had reportedly
been provided by the attach�n one of the royal palaces in
Riyadh. King Saud and members of his en-
tourage now visiting in Jordan have been frankly anti Egyptian,
providing further evidence of an emerging Arab bloc estranged
from Nasr.
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2. JAPANESE RAILWAY WORKERS TO STRIKE ON
13-14 JUNE
Nationwide walkouts in Japan sched-
uled for 13-14 June by the 380,000-
member National Railway Workers'
Union will be the most serious chal-
lenge yet to the Kishi government's ability to enforce labor
legislation, the American embassy in Tokyo reports. The
embassy points out that this development, in combination
with a large Socialist- and leftist-sponsored rally on 15
June to protest "unequal treaties" with the US, will create
a domestic problem for Kishi on the eve of his departure for
the United States.
The walkouts have been planned by
workers of the nationalized rail system as retaliation against
the government's refusal to negotiate wage increases unless
union workers dismissed by the government leave their jobs.
The cabinet reportedly intends to seek court action which
would prevent the dismissed workers from holding positions
as union officers.
The embassy comments that what had
appeared to be a protracted contest between the government
and the 3,000,000 member leftist Sohyo labor federation ap-
pears to be reaching an early crisis.
Comment Conflict between the government and Sohyo
in recent months has been characterized
by a series of limited walkouts and punitive countermeasures
to determine whether legislation prohibiting strikes by govern-
ment corporation workers can be enforced.
Although Socialist leaders reportedly do
not plan violence, the intrusion of a labor dispute and the Girard
issue into the Socialist rally planned for 15 June will heighten
tension.
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3. LAOTIAN PREMIER-DESIGNATE OUTLINES FIRMER
POLICY TOWARD PATHETS
Comment on:
Deputy Premier Katyreportedly plans
to ask assembly approval for his new
government on 14 June. Advance copies
of his speech reveal that he will call for
a foreign policy based on "strict neu-
trality" and will continue negotiations with
the Pathet Lao under terms less favorable
to the Pathets than those set by his pred-
ecessor, Souvanna Phouma. He is willing
to carry out the agreements on unifica-
tion reached by Souvanna Phouma, but only
if the Pathet Lao movement is first dis-
solved and royal government authority
reimposed in the two northern provinces.
In the proposed coalition government, he intends to give two
minor posts to Pathet representatives.
In order to check further Pathet stalling,
negotiations are to be limited to a period of two months and
will be on a new basis�the Pathet Lao will no longer bargain
as a "state within a state," but rather will be regarded as "out-
laws" who fought in the Viet Minh army against their own coun-
try.
Representatives of all the major parties
have agreed in principle to accept posts in ICatay's cabinet, and
his Pathet policy presumably meets with their approval.
The Pathet delegation in
Vientiane reportedly has threatened a resumption of hostilities
if he succeeds. The announcement by Hanoi radio on 11 June
that a Viet Minh division is now in the field.on maneuvers may
be an attempt.to intimidate the Laotian government.
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4. AMBASS �R RIDDLEBERGER COMMENTS ON
YUGOSLAV POSITION
Ambassador Riddleberger believes
that Yugoslav defense minister Gosnjak's
visit to Moscow and Tito's public optimism
regarding prospects for improved relations
with the USSR reflect a Yugoslav desire to maintain a balance
between East and West.
He believes there are still far more ele-
ments of conflict between Moscow and Belgrade than links be-
tween them. Although the existing ideological differences
have been described by Tito as only minor, the ambassador
believes they can hardly be viewed as that by the Kremlin.
Riddleberger is of the opinion that Tito
continues to look primarily to the West, and especially the US,
for economic and military aid. He notes that the British am-
bassador has informed him that a renewed cordiality has been
evident in Anglo-Yugoslav relations,
for the purchase of British military mate-
riel.
Comment
Belgrade continues to show a strong desire
for US aid� but is now apparently testing
Soviet intentions to fulfill previous credit arrangements. The
US embassy in Belgrade believes talks are now taking place in
Moscow concerning the aluminum combine credits which Moscow
granted last year but unilaterally "postponed" this February.
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5. SOVIET SCIENTIST PREDICTS EARTH SATELLITE
LAUNCHING "WITHIN NEXT FEW MONTHS"
Comment on:
Alexander Nesmeyanov, president-or
the USSR Academy of Sciences, pre-
dicted in the 9 June issue of Komso-
molskava Pravda that the Soviet Union
would launch its first earth satellite "within the next few
months."
The increased volume of public state-
ments by 'Moscow in recent weeks concerning earth satel-
lites may indicate that the USSR plans to launch one soon. It
is passible that more specific plans will be announced by the
USSR at the 15-18 June IGY meeting in Brussels.
Since Soviet scientists recognize the ap-
proximately 50-percent probability of failure of a particular
launching, it is possible that they will announce the precise
date only after the launching. It would be desirable though not
mandatory to orbit an earth satellite within a week before or
after the solstice periods, about 21 June or 21 December, to
enable better observation of the satellite in the twilight zones.
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