CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1956/06/26

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• Publication Date: June 26, 1956

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CONTENTS
1. SINO-SOVIET SUPPORT OF OPPOSITION PARTY ANGERS
BURMESE LEADERS (page 3).
2. AMBASSADOR BOHLEN COMMENTS ON TITO'S RELA-
TIONS WITH THE USSR (page 4).
3. ICELANDIC ELECTION
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
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1. SINO-SOVIET SUPPORT OF OPPOSITION PARTY ANGERS
BURMESE LEADERS
Shock over the magnitude of Soviet and
Chinese Communist assistance--espe-
cially Chinese--to the pro-Communist
National United Front in the recent
sely affected the attitude of many of Burma's
leaders toward the Communist bloc, according to the Amer-
ican embassy in Rangoon. Premier Ba Swe was reported
particularly angered.
Comment Former premier Nu had earlier been
reported as deeply disturbed over Soviet
and Chinese interference in the elections. His reeling that
Burma's policy of friendship and trade with the Sino-Soviet
bloc was, at least in part, a mistake seems to be shared by
Ba .Swe and the other Burma Socialist Party leaders who now
control the government.
Burma, while continuing its policy of non-
involvement in the East-West conflict, may become cooler in
its relations with the bloc. There are already indications it
will attempt a gradual disengagement from its now extensive
barter trade with Communist countries, which has come under
increasing official and popular criticism in Rangoon in recent
weeks.
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2. AMBASSADOR BOHLEN COMMENTS ON TITO'S
RELATIONS WITH THE USSR
Commenting on President Tito's visit
to the USSR, Ambassador Bohlen ob-
serves that in international affairs Yugo-
slavia has "rejoined the Communist com-
munity:' BohT�elieves that unless the USSR changes its
current line or overplays its hand, Yugoslavia will continue
and even increase its support of Soviet foreign policy. He
adds, however, that Tito has "rejoined" on his own terms,
and as yet there is no indication that Yugoslavia has lost its
independence.
Bohlen believes that the apparent Soviet
acceptance of Yugoslav theories regarding relations among
Communist countries and left-wing parties may stimulate
changes in relations between Moscow and other Communist
parties that logically should result in the termination of direct
Soviet control. He warns, however, that the development of
independent Communist states might not be an unalloyed advan-
tage to the West since, as Tito's return to the Communist com-
munity reveals, their foreign policy aims would probably be the
same as Moscow's.
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3. ICELANDIC ELECTION
Comment on:
Incomplete returns from Iceland's
24 June parliamentary election show
gains for the, Progressive-Social
Democratic alliance which opposes
the NATO base at Keflavik. The alliance has gained at
the expense of the Conservatives and a small nationalistic
party which lost both its seats. The Communists and left-
wing Socialists increased their popular vote but did not gain
seats in addition to the seven they won in 1953.
Even if the Progressive-Social Demo-
cratic alliance fails to attain an absolute parliamentary
majority, its strong showing may encourage it to form a
minority government. Such a government would receive
Communist support on issues arising from the base nego-
tiations.
Any new government emerging from the
elections is already committed to negotiate a revision of the
1951 defense agreement with the United States in talks.begin-
ning 1 August. The gains made by the Progressive Party in its
alliance with the Social Democrats are likely to strengthen
the position of those elements favoring a drastic revision of
the agreement.
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
(Information as of 1700, 25 June)
Nothing of significance to report.
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