CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1951/10/09

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• Publication Date: October 9, 1951

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SUMMARY
USSR
1. Embassy Moscow comments on Stalin's atomic bomb interview (page 3)
FAR EAST
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Chinese allegedly supply half of Viet Minh staff leadership (page 43.3(h)(2)
NEAR EAST
5. Comment on Egypt's abrogation of the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty
(page 6)
WESTERN EUROPE
French Premier predicts Assembly approval of Schuman Plan and
European Army (page 6)
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1. Embassy Moscow comments on Stalin'soatositictsonabuintermiew:
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The US-Embassy in Moscow characterizes
Stalin's Pravda interview on the atomic bomb
as a "strong,aggressive" statement directed
particularly to the United States. The Embassy
suggests that the Kremlin may consider the
Soviet atomic weapons program now sufficiently advanced to warrant a
belligerent attitude toward the West and reassurance to the Orbit that the
armament gap has been spanned.
The Embassy does not see in Stalin's re-
ferences to controls any increased possibility of a compromise control
solution. It feels that his statement was apparently intended to frighten
the West into accepting the Soviet control scheme, since agreement even
on the USSR's terms previously offered in the UN was not mentioned.
Comment: Stalin's admission that the USSR
now has developed and tested-the atomic bomb follows the USSR pro-
paganda theme on atomic energy adopted last August. At that time,
contradiction to the Russians' earlier line, the Presidium of the Supreme
Soviet announced that "only after a ban on atomic weapons is imposed can
atomic power be truly utilized for peaceful purposes. "
In view of the publicity given to US delop-
ment of atomic weapons, the USSR undoubtedly wishes to impress upon
the world that the Soviet armed forces also possess strength in the same
field. Stalin's timing was probably determined by the official US announce-
ment; what he said was obviously phrased to reconcile the development
of the bomb with the various lines of the Soviet "peace campaign.
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3. Chinese allegedly supply half of Viet Minh staff leadership:
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heaviest representation in the quartermaster,
me ica , er service corps. On the other hand, believes
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states that the assignment
of some 50 Chinese political advisers has antagonized the "hypernation-
alistic" Viet Minh, and that the tendency of these advisers to avoid the
active fronts and spend all their time at "headquarters" in Caobang has
occasioned Sino-Viet Minh friction.
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Comment: Reports of the participation of
Chinese Communist personnel in the Viet Minh have been received with
increasing frequency for more than a year and a half. According to the
French, Chinese advisers numbering between 5, 000 and 10, 000 have been
assigned to Viet Minh units down to company level.
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5. Comment on Egypt's abrogation of the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty:
With the Egyptian Parliament preparing
legislation for abrogation of the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty and the
1899 Condominium Agreement on the Sudan, the Western position in
the Middle East is seriously jeopardized.
For the present, the British will stand by
their claim that the abrogation has no validity. British troops may be
expected to remain in the Suez Canal zone, since the Egyptians are in-
capable of ousting them by force.
If a solution is not found in the proposed
Middle East Command, Egypt may be expected to resort to attritional
measures designed to make the position of the British forces untenable,
thus forcing on the West a decision between evacuation and provision of
additional means of support.
WESTERN EUROPE
6. French Premier predicts Assembly approval of Schuman Plan and
European Army:
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French Premier Pleven has told US Ambas-
sador Bruce that in the National Assembly
session opening 6 November he expects
to have a comfortable majority for ratifica-
tion of the Schuman Plan and for approval of
the government's policy on the prospective European Defense Forces.
Both Pleven and Vice-Premier Bidault, who recently expressed similar
confidence to Ambassador Bruce, assume that the Gaullists as well as
the Communists will vote solidly against a European Army. �
Comment: While this is the first reliable
indication of the probable Assembly alignment on the Schuman Plan,
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intermittent reports have warned that it would meet serious opposition
when submitted for ratification. \
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