CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1952/11/29

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• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2019
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2019
• Publication Date: November 29, 1952

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29 November 1952
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
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I. New Sapanese jurisdiction issue may be developing (page 3).
2. Chinese Nationalists form governing committee (page 3).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
3. Iraqi crowd demonstrates against King Feisal (page 4).
4, British War Office sees possibility of guerrilla warfare in Kenya
(page 5).
WESTERN EUROPE
5. Vienna Embassy notes likelihood of small Communist gains in
Austrian elections (page 5).
6. French Assembly may be given free rein on EDC treaty changes
(page 6).
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. New Japanese jurisdiction issue may be developing:
Ambassador Murphy comments that the recent 3.3(h)(2)
arrest of a British and an Australian soldier
in Japan may revive the dispute about criminal
jurisdiction over UN troops and may adversely
affect Japanese-British-Commonwealth re-
lations.
The Japanese press has begun a campaign
to highlight the allegedly high crime rate of Commonwealth forces in
Japan and the Diet Judicial Committee Chairman has urged that Japan
never accede to Australian-British demands for the soldiers' release.
The Australian Minister in Tokyo fears an
"unpleasant" Australian reaction, while the British Minister indicates
that London is determined not to acknowledge Japanese jurisdiction.
Comment: Japanese reluctance to grant
extraterritorial privileges is particularly strong on the score of
criminal jurisdiction over UN troops. The arrest and conviction of
two British sailors by Japanese courts last summer strained Japanese-
British relations.
In the present case, the Japanese Foreign
Office sought to expedite handling without publicity to prevent another
international incident. The Ministry of Justice, however, has
apparently blocked the Foreign Office by speeding up pre-trial pro-
ceedings and by permitting the matter to leak to the press.
2. Chinese Nationalists form governing committee:
a "Superior Committee" now has
supreme jurisdiction over Chinese Nation-
alist government and party affairs. This
body, formed a few months ago, is composed of Chiang Kai-shek,
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his son Chiang Ching-kuo, and five other leading military, intelligence
and police figures.
The members of this group are said to have
taken elaborate precautions to prevent disclosure of its formation
and activities.
Comment: The existence of such a committee
has not been confirmed. In recent months, however, there has been an
apparent increase in the power of Chiang Kai--shek, his son, and Nation-
alist military leaders closest to them.
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
3. Iraqi crowd demonstrates against King Feisal
A crowd of 100 students and street elements
staged a violent demonstration on 19
November in Diwaniyah, 100 miles south
of Baghdad, in which they shouted "down with
the King." This occurred during a USIS mobile unit showing of films
of King Feisal's recent visit to the United States. The crowd stoned
and mauled the mobile unit driver.
Comment: This is the first public demon-
stration against 17-year old King Feisal,
an article attacking the Royal tiamitiy appeared on
28 September 1952 in an Iraqi Communist paper at the direction of
the Syrian Communist Party.
The Diwaniyah incident, which took place
three days before the Baghdad rioting, shows the extent to which
popular discontent exists in places other than politically-conscious
Baghdad. Mild demonstrations have o ccurred in Basra and else-
where as a result of the Baghdad rioting.
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4. British War Office sees possibility of guerrilla warfare in Kenya:
The British War Office reports deterioration
in the Mau Mau situation in Kenya. Natives
have stolen 100 to 150 firearms and the
possibility of guerrilla warfare now exists.
The governor of Kenya has requested the assignment of an expert
on guerrilla warfare to direct military operations against the Mau
Mau.
Comment: This is the first evidence that
the Mau Mau have acquired firearms. Since much of the white
settlement in Kenya is rural and isolated, guerrilla activity poses
a real threat. The British Government can be expected to remain
in control of the situation, although a costly campaign of eradication
may be required.
WESTERN EUROPE
5. Vienna Embassy notes likelihood of small Communist gains in Austrian
elections:
The American Embassy in Vienna believes
that the Communist gains expected in next
February's election will not be large. The
Socialist Party warns, however, that if the
Communists gain more than two or three seats they will be in a
position to hamper the ordinary functioning of parliament. The USSR,
according to the Socialists, would then be encouraged to extend more
overt support to the Austrian Communist Party.
Both coalition parties expect to lose votes
to extremist elements, and the "big question," the Embassy feels,
is still whether the RaOphe's Party will suffer important losses to the
extreme rightists. The Embassy notes that the anti-1, merican line
followed by right-wing groups is already gaining support, particularly
in the Western zones.
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6. French Assembly may be given free rein on EDC treaty changes:
On the basis of Defense Minister Pleven's
recent public statements on French defense
problems, the American Embassy in Paris
concludes that the government has decided
against seeking National Assembly ratification of the EDC treaty as
it stands.
The cabinet has apparently rejected the idea
of trying to soften Assembly criticism of the treaty by first attempting
to obtain concessions from France's defense partners, as had been
proposed by the French Deputy to the North Atlantic Council. Instead,
the government will try to determine the Assembly's minimum condi-
tions by going ahead with debate "more or less on schedule" and
leaving to the Assembly the initiative of attaching conditions to the
treaty.
The Embassy is unable to say at what
point top government spokesmen might intervene to prevent the
imposition of crippling conditions.
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