CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1955/09/02

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• Publication Date: September 2, 1955

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CONTENTS
I. EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI SITUATION (page 3).
2. USSR OFFERS MINOR TERRITORIAL CONCESSIONS
TO JAPAN (page 4).
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I. EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI SITUATION
Israeli foreign minister Sharett told
Ambassador Lawson on 1 September
that Israel will "take no action now"
and that strict orders will be given
to this effect, provided thpre are no "acts of hostility"
by Egypt. Sharett defined such acts as shooting across
the border, mining, and sabotage.
The foreign minister hoped this mes-
sage would be conveyed to Cairo as well as to Washington,
adding that UN truce chief Burns had already been given
a similar message.
Sharett said he did not yet know how
his formula would be applied to the Egyptian rikiders
still operating in Israel.
Comment The tone of an Egyptian broadcast on
1 September, which was evidently made
after receipt of Sharett's message, suggests that the
Nasr regime may now be preparing public opinion for
a "truce with honor" rather than for an Egyptian counter-
attack. Other reports, however, including one of an in-
cident on the Israeli-Syrian border, indicate that the situ-
ation is still explosive.
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2. USSR OFFERS MINOR TERRITORIAL CONCESSIONS
TO JAPAN
Soviet ambassador Malik told Jap-
anese delegate Matsumoto on 30
August that Moscow had decided to
a.cknowledge Japan's right to Shikotan
and the lea,bomai Islands, according to an official of the
Japanese embassy in London. Malik added, however,
that the USSR could not agree to return other former
Japanese territories, or to recognize the right of non-
riparian powers to navigate the Sea of Japan.
The Japanese embassy official im-
plied that he believed a Soviet concession On navigation
rights in the Sea of Japan might lead to the normalization
of relations and the immediate return of approximately
1, 300 Japanese detainees.
Comment Moscow apparently has responded
to Tokyo's strong insistence that Japan
has a special historic011.claim to small islands of the
HabomAi group and Shikotan. The USSR probably con-
siders that it has now made adequate concessions to save
face for the Japanese government and may insist that the
next move come from the Japanese.
Freedom of navigation on the Sea of
Japan has been one of Tokyo's minimum demands, and
this question may become one of the most difficult yet
faced in the negotiations.
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