CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1951/08/09

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02014436
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• Document Creation Date: April 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2019
• Publication Date: August 9, 1951

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
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5. US Embassy Belgrade favors lifting US visa restrictions on Yugoslav
nationals (page 5).
6. Possibility of Italian concessions on Trieste (page 6).
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7. British Foreign Office supports suspension of Czech overflight rights
in Germany (page 6).
� 8. Agricultural strikes threaten German Republic (page 7).
9. French perturbed by increase in German coal price (page 6).
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5. US Embassy Belgrade favors lifting US visa restrictions on Yugoslav nationals:
The US Embassy in Belgrade considers that
the program of assistance to Yugoslavia could
be much improved if it were combined with a
program of technical training of Yugoslays in
the United States. The embassy suggests that a clause be added to the current
aid bill which would permit temporary visits to the US by the subjects of
nations participating in aid programs. In this manner Yugoslav nationals
could be admitted without weakening existing visa regulations.
The embassy feels that the US should encourage
Yugoslav willingness to expose its citizens to Western life as evidenced by the
regime's recent requests for on-the-job training and scholarships. The
embassy points out that there is very little likelihood that any trainee selected
by the regime would be sympathetic to the Cominform, since the anti-Cominform
screening process in Yugoslavia is extremely severe.
Comment: A program of US training for Yugo-
slav nationals would improve Yugoslav industrial techniques. Because present
US legislation restricts the entrance of all Communists, those Yugoslav
nationals most likely to be sent for such training are not now eligible for visas.
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Italy is more anxious than Yugoslavia to reach
a settlement on the Trieste issue in the opinion
of the US Embassy in Rome. The state of
Italian public opinion and the vulnerability of
the Italian Government on this issue leave Premier De Gasperi little freedom
of action. The embassy estimates that under any compromise the Italians
would insist on obtaining all the predominantly Italian coast towns in the
Yugoslav Zone By but would probably be willing to make economic or other
concessions to Yugoslavia.
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Comment: A settlement of the Trieste boundary
along ethnic lines would give the Italians the city of Trieste plus coastal cities
in. Zone B, where the Yugoslav Government has trongly indicated it would make
no concessions.
The economic concessions mentioned might
involve formal relinquishment of the former Italian mercury and bauld.te mines
in Zone B, already under de facto Yugoslav control. Trade concessions Yugo-
slavia in connection with certain imports levied in the port of Trieste might
also be involved.
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7. British Foreign Office supports suspension of Czech overflight rights in
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The Foreign Office has now conditionally
agreed to the suspension of the Czechoslovak
State Airlines' right to fly over Western Ger-
many, as part of the effort to secure the
release of AP correspondent William Oatis. The UK insists that France,
Belgium, the Netherlands, and possibly Switzerland concur in the action and
that the Czech Government first be given warning that the rights will be sus-
pended if Oatis is not released within a certain time to be specified.
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The Foreign Office will assist the US in ob-
taining the concurrence of these interested countries. US Embassy London
believes this is the most that can be obtained from the Foreign Office at this
moment.
Comment: Great Britain, like France, had
previously declined to agree to tripartite suspension of the overflight right,
expressing the general belief that that particular weapon should be saved for
possible future use in case of more vital importance to the West
The French have reacted to the latest-American
overtures by suggesting that there should be agreement on a general program
including conditions for re-establishment of the flights. The Belgians have
indicated that they will not oppose suspension, the Dutch interests in the
flights are not so great as to presage isolated opposition, and the Swiss atti-
tude is unknown.
Agricultural strikes threaten German Republic:
The danger of agricultural strikes increased
during the past week when the negotiations of
farm workers for higher wages ran into diffi-
culties. Workers have walked out in some 30
large Bavarian agricultural enterprises, and .similar, action is anticipated in
most other Laender. The workers are in a good bargaining position because
this is harvest season, but the effectiveness of the strikes has been diminished
by the use of children and unemployed as "strike-breakers. "
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Comment: German workers are becoming in-
creasingly restless over the steadily rising cost of living, but this is the first
instance of agricalizral strikes. 'The German Trade Union Federation, which
recently threatened to withdraw its participation from all government commis-
sions, is supporting the farm workers in their demands. Unless some arrange-
ment is soon reached with the strikers, crop losses could be serious.
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The French representative on the Ruhr Author-
ity fears that prospects for French ratification
of the Schuman Plan will be jeopard4ed by
West Germanys recent unilateral decision to
Increase export coal prices. He believes that the increase is discriminatory
and would have a. disastrous effect on the French and Luxemburg steel
industries. He regards this German move, however, as primarily a political
test of strength to determine how far the Federal Republic can go in disre-
garding Western restrictions. He implies that disappearance of Ruhr Author-
ity restrictions would weaken the German desire for ratification of the
Schuman Plan,
Comment: In view of the critical coal shortage
in Western Europe, the Germans have brought Ruhr coal prices closer to
world levels with little chance of Western interference. The Germans have
long resented the Ruhr Authority's restrictions and, if this move succeeds, may
attempt to evade the few remaining controls. France's sharp reaction to
incidents such as this and General Ramcke's recent demand for a free hand in
German rearmament endanger the full French-German cooperation essential
to European integration.
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