CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1953/10/08

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02869425
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: July 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2019
• Publication Date: October 8, 1953

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
GENERAL
1. Swedish ambassador seeks clarification of repatriation commission
stand (page 3).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
2. Possibility of partial French withdrawal from Cambodia seen
(page 3).
SOUTH ASIA
3. Pakistani prime minister solves major block to constitution (page 4).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
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Egypt reportedly sending 5,000 troops to Israeli border (page 5).
4.1r- Nasr may assume Egyptian premiership because of Nagib's
Illness (page 6).
WESTERN EUROPE
Formation
of Bonn cabinet delays consideration of Saar question
(nave 6).
(page 7).
LATIN AMERICA
9. Britain plans to arrest Guiana Communist leaders and revise
constitution (page 8).
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GENERAL
1. Swedish ambassador seeks clarification of repatriation commission
stand:
The ambassador quoted a New York
Times editorial calling for direct protests to the governments
of the commission members. He expressed anxiety to counter-
act "such obvious misunderstandings and misrepresentations."
Comment: This is the first indication
that Swedish officials are concerned over possible unfavorable
repercussions of their country's role in the Korean armistice.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
2. Possibility of partial French withdrawal from Cambodia seen:
Ambassador Heath in Saigon believes
there is a possibility that the French
command might remove all French
residents from Cambodia and accept
a "condition of anarchy," maintaining troops in the eastern part,
by force if necessary, to protect the line of communication to
Laos. This move, which was under consideration by DeLattre
three years ago, might result from the continuing refusal of the
Cambodian king to accept French control of Cambodian units for
possible use outside the kingdom.
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Comment: A complete withdrawal of
French forces from Cambodia would strengthen the already great
popularity of the king, and probably would provide a considerable
degree of insurance against anarchy. A partial withdrawal, such
as envisioned above, would only aggravate French-Cambodian
tensions.
Continuing pressure on Cambodia to
accept French military control has served only to increase Cam-
hodian intransigence.
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SOUTH ASIA
3. Pakistani prime minister solves major block to constitution:
Pakistani prime minister Mohammed
All has broken the deadlock in efforts
to draft a constitution by obtaining the
unanimous agreement of the cabinet
and provincial leaders to a formula for provincial representation
In a bicameral legislature, according to Ambassador Hildreth in
Karachi. Hildreth states that All has accomplished what his prede-
cessors failed to do in six years and that even Moslem League
dissidents have praised the agreement,.
Comment: This compromise on one
of the knottiest problems blocking a constitution will probably
result in the adoption of an interim document which would side-
step other controversies such as the dispute over a secular or
theocratic state and the question of a national language.
This decision apparently ensures the
continuation of the present government and the unity of the country.
East Pakistan, with 60 percent of the
population, will dominate the lower house of the legislature on the
basis of popular representation; West Pakistan will control the
Senate on the basis of state representation.
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