CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1951/08/17

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• Document Creation Date: April 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2019
• Publication Date: August 17, 1951

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I. Russia not expected to demand reparations at San Francisco (page 3
2. US Minister i Saigon urges presence of Indochinese states at San
Francisco (page 3).
French backing hinted for Chinese Communist UN bid (page 4).
4. Indonesian Government undertakes forceful anti-Communist action
(page 4).
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6. Italians outline plans for Italian peace treaty revision (page 6
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,Russia not expected to demand reparations at San Francisco:
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The Department of State does not share
Philippine concern that Soviet maneuvers at
San Francisco will revolve around the repa-
rations issue. The Department points out that
Soviet proposals, which Gromyko has indicated will be renewed at San Fran-
cisco, so far have been wholly geared to winning favor in Japan. In particular,
there have been no suggestions in prior Soviet notes that Japan should pay
reparations. The Department further observes that since India also opposes
reparations, efforts of Indonesia and Burma to form a common front with
India in this respect have not succeeded.
Comment: The USSR may be hesitant to raise
the reparations question because Soviet postwar removals from Manchuria
presumably created a delicate issue between the USSR and Communist China.
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US Minister in Saigon urges presence of Indochinese states at San Francisco
conference:
In view of the Soviet decision to take part in
the Japanese peace treaty conference, US
Minister. Beath believes that the issue of the
Associated States' participation has been inten-
sified, and that failure to invite them is "less than ever defensible. "
Heath believes that in addition to wedge-driving
on larger issues, the Russians may defend the legitimacy of the Ho Chi Minh
government, recall Vichy' s and Bao Dal's wartime collaboration with the
Japanese, and challenge the Western nations to submit the Vietnam problem
to elections or international investigation. Moreover, the Russians may bid
for French support of their overall position at the conference, by dangling
before the French the prospect of a Chinese Communist guarantee for the
Tonkin frontier.
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. French backing hinted for Chinese Communist UN bidg
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� France's Deputy Permanent Representative to
the UN has expressed the "personal view" that
France would be strongly tempted to vote for
the admission of the Chinese Communists to
the UN if they held out the prospect of a "Kaesong in Indochina. " He inquired
whether the US would modify its position on admitting the Chinese in the event
of a Korean armistice.
comnient4 While the French have been ex-
tremely desirous of obtaining some form of non-intervention guarantee for
Indochina, this feeler is the strongest intimation that France would consider
bargaining with Communist China on its admission to the UN,
4. Indonesian Government undertakes forceful anti-Communist action:.
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Military police in the past few days have
arrested several hundred people including son,v
high officials of the Ministry of Labor, Corn-
=mist Party chieftains and leaders of several
Communist unions. The police also searched
the offices of the Communist Party and the Communist labor unions and the
homes of several Parliament members.
Comment Serious incidents of apparently
coordinated violence throughout Indonesia from 4 to 6 August -- including an
attack on the Djakarta port area by 200 to 300 men wearing Communist in-
signia -- have alarmed the Indonesian Government sufficiently to force it to
take strong action for the first time against the Communists.
These developments, in addition to reported
Communist plans for nation-wide demonstrations on 17 August, led the cabinet
to order drastic action "within the bounds of existing laws and regulations"
against "anti-national movements."
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"Conservative" Indonesians have stated,
however, that unless sufficiently serious 'incidents co NIL hale, it is doubtful
that the government will persist in its forceful policy and that the Commu-
ists will be permitted to develop their strength =opposed.
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Italians outline plans for Italian,veace treaty.
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The Italian. Ambassador in London proposes
to repomme d that his government. again press
the US for revision of the Italian peace treaty
of 1947 and, at the same time, offer to take
the initiative in approaching Yugoslavia re-
garding a compromise on the Trieste issue�.
The Italian Foreign Office is concerned lest
the French try to confine revision to the� mili-e
an arrangement which Italy would consider inadequate and
The Foreign Office believes the matter should
be dealt with in two stages: first, a declaration by the three Western powers
that the spirit of the treaty is no longer applicable, and, secondly, an exami-
nation of the treaty to see which clauses should be altered. It feels a simple
UN Assembly resolution in support of whatever action was taken might be
useful.
Comment: Italy primarily desires a general
abrogation of the treaty, because it is a punitive instrument detrimental to
Italian international prestige. Despite its complaints on the subject, the
government has comparatively little interest in a revision of the military terms,
since they are already being ignored, with the Italian Army,, Navy and Air.Yorce
all over treaty strength. The specific issue of most interest to Italians is
their claim to the Trieste area.
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