CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1954/12/12

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• Publication Date: December 12, 1954

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12 December 1954
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SUMMARY
SOVIET UNION
1. Chairmen of USSR Supreme Soviet discuss administrative
changes in Soviet government with Yugoslav ambassador (page 3).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
2. Indian head of Indochina truce team reported disgusted with Polish
obstructionism (page 3).
3.
SOUTH ASIA
4. Indian industrialists unimpressed by Soviet industrial achieve-
ments (page 5).
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
5. Paris sees no hope for improvement in French-Egyptian relations
(page 6).
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SOVIET UNION
1. Chairmen of USSR Supreme Soviet discuss administrative changes
in Soviet government with Yugoslav ambassador:
Over a million Soviet workers are to be
transferred from government administra-
tive posts to productive sectors of the
economy. Individuals having specialized
training will be shifted to jobs in their fields, and the small re-
mainder to manual labor.
This information was given to the Yugo-
slav ambassador to Moscow on 3 December by the chairmen of the
two houses of the Supreme Soviet. The ambassador reported this
conversation to the American embassy which comments that this is
the first definite indication of the size of the current planned reorg-
anization of the Soviet state apparatus.
Comment: The Soviet press and radio
have referred many times in recent months to the need for trans-
ferring administrative workers from both government and industry
to production jobs, and moving workers from the central govern-
ment in Moscow out to regional or field organizations.
this drive began in April 1953, about a month
after Stalin's death, but the numerous articles recently published
in the USSR on the subject suggest that the drive is accelerating.
The statement to the Yugoslav ambassador may apply either to the
total reductions of administrative personnel since Stalinb death or
only to future planned reductions.
The discussion of internal problems by
these two Soviet officials with the Yugosliv ambassador consti-
tutes an additional gesture to Belgrade.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
2. Indian head of Indochina truce team reported disgusted with Polish
obstructionism;
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the Indian chairman of the International Con-
trol Commission in Indochina is disgusted
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with the obstructionism of the Poles on the commission and is
seriously contemplating abandoning the rule of unanimity in the
commission's work for one of majority decision.
Comment: The Geneva agreement pro-
vides that a unanimous deT)rthe commission is required
only on matters that might lead to a resumption of hostilities or
on recommendations for amendments to the cease-fire agreement.
Efforts by the Indian chairmen of the
truce teams in all three Associated States to insure that all deci-
sions are unanimous have severely hampered the commission's
effectiveness. In numerous instances where the Canadian and
Polish members have disagreed on the handling of complaints,
the subject has been referred to subcommittees for further study
with the result that no action is taken or that any action loses its
timeliness.
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SOUTH ASIA
4. Indian industrialists unimpressed by Soviet industrial achieve-
ments:
"We have informed the government of
India that Russia will not be able to
help greatly in industrializing, India,"
the ieaderof the Indian industrialists'
delegation which recently toured the USSR told the press in Bom-
bay on 9 December.
The delegation spokesman said that,
though Soviet authorities may not have wished the group to see
certain establishments, they had seen 20 to 30 plants all of which
were merely copies of British, German, Swiss or American in-
stallations. He stated the delegation was unimpressed by the
quality of Soviet production and techniques, but was impressed
by the amount of work put in by Soviet workers.
The leader added it would be very diffi-
cult to expand Indo-Soviet trade, because of the USSR's insistence
on balancing trade each year and its unwillingness to import what
India could export easily.
Comment: This report will have direct
influence on private Indian business thinking, and will probably
also induce New Delhi to review its estimates of MOSCOW'S ability
to help India. Nehru, however, is inclined to disregard economics
when it suits his purposes and he may, in line with his neutralist
policies, continue negotiations for some Soviet technical assist-
ance.
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The Indian mission-=consisting of highly
competent businessmen�toured the USSR in response to Soviet
Ambassador Menshikov's blanket invitation issued to Asian coun-
tries at the ECAFE conference in February 1954.
NEAR EAST - AFRICA
5. Paris sees no hope for improvement in French-Egyptian relations:
The French Foreign Ministry believes
that the communication from Egyptian
Prime Minister Nasr offering to mediate
between France and Moroccan national-
ists makes any improvement in French-Egyptian relations iinpos-
sible for the foreseeable future, according to Ambassador Dillon
in Paris.
Premier Mendes-France told Egyptian
representatives, who read Nases note to him, that France could
not accept mediation in "internal. matters." Mendes-France also
objected to the Egyptian "wish" that France drop its "repressive"
policy in Algeria.
Comment: The recent softening of Cairo's
anti-French propaganda may noiThe reversed. Cairo is likely to
resume a strong anti-French line as it tries to establish its lead-
ership of Moslems in Africa and the Near East.
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