CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1956/06/09

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• Publication Date: June 9, 1956

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CONTENTS
1. SHEPILOV'S IMPENDING VISIT TO EGYPT
2. BOHLEN COMMENTS ON TITO VISIT TO MOSCOW
(page 4).
(page 3).
3. SUSLOV7 'TRIP TO HUNGARY MAY DETERMINE RAKOSPS
FUTURE (page 5).
4. JAPANESE EXTEND LIMITED RECOGNITION TO SOVIET
5.
MISSION (page 6).
(page 7).
6. ASSASSINATION THREAT REPORTEDLY CAUSED RHEE TO
CANCEL ADDRESS (page 8).
7. BURMESE REBUFFED BY CHINESE COMMUNISTS ON BORDER
ISSUE (page 9).
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1. SHEPILOV'S IMPENDING VISIT TO EGYPT
Soviet foreign minister Shepilov's visit
to Cairo on 18 June probably is intended
by Moscow as a reaffirmation of Soviet
support for the Arabs. �Shepilov will also
visit Syria.
Shepilov may press for Egyptian accept-
ance of the Soviet offer to finance the Aswan High Dam. A
year ago, when arms negotiations between Egypt and the
West were faltering, Shepilov negotiated the Czech arms
deal in Cairo. (Concurred in by ORR)
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2. BOHLEN COMMENTS ON TITO VISIT TO MOSCOW
Ambassador Bohlen reports that Tito
during his visit has maintained the pos-
ture of a chief of state of an independent
country and has refrained in his public
r m references to party matters. The Soviet
leaders have treated this as a state-to-state visit in their
public statements. At the negotiating table, however, Khru-
shchev, as party first secretary, has been seated as head of
the delegation rather than Bulganin as chief of government.
A member of the Yugoslav delegation told
Bohlen the Yugoslays, although finding the Soviet leaders
"dogmatic," had been impressed by their frankness, particu-
larly in discussing their past mistakes. He told Bohlen that
the two countries were very close on the German question,
both favoring a rapprochement between the two German states,
which he believed would be facilitated by some changes in the
East German structure. He implied that in the Moscow talks
so far there had been somewhat greater divergencies on certain
other questions, possibly, according to Bohlen, the question of
Satellite relations.
Bohlen notes that Shepilov has not figured
prominently in the visit and is obviously outside the inner group.
In view of Molotov's participation in the talks, Bohlen is becom-
ing convinced that Molotov was replaced as foreign minister by
common agreement or at his own request. He may have wished
to avoid playing before Tito the role of mereAechnician which he
as foreign minister has played in high-level negotiations during
the past year.
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3. SUSLOV'S TRIP TO HUNGARY MAY DETERMINE
RAKOSI'S FUTURE
The arrival of Soviet presidium member
Suslov in Budapest on 7 June coincides
with a Hungarian central comMittee meet-
ing reportedly convoked to discuss the
problem of party factionalism. Suslov
may be on a mission to settle Hungarian party first secre-
tary Rakosi's future position. Suslov is believed to be re-
sponsible for relations with foreign Communist parties and
reportedly was present at the Bulgarian central committee
plenum which ousted Chervenkov. Rakosi, like Chervenkov,
has been a target of Tito's criticism.
Rakosi has apparently retained power in
the face of strong internal opposition only through open Soviet
endorsement. His continued inability to cope with factional-
ism, and possibly demands by Tito in Moscow, may have
forced a change in Soviet plans.
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4, JAPANESE EXTEND LIMITED RECOGNITION TO
SOVIET MISSION
The Japanese government has granted
Soviet mission chief Sergei Tikhvinsky
"limited recognition" as Moscow's offi-
cial representative in fishery matters
only. Tikhvmsky's reported acceptance of this status will
open the way for the Japanese fishing fleet to obtain Soviet
licenses for operation in Soviet restricted waters beginning
15 Jun; but it merely defers settlement of the larger ques-
tion of relations with the USSR.
Japan, under the terms of the fishery pacts
recently concluded in Moscow, is committed to restore diplo-
matic relations with the USSR. The principal political con-
flict which has developed in Tokyo centers on timing and method
for resuming relations--whether to adopt the Adenauer formula
of an immediate exchange of diplomats without a peace treaty
or to attempt to negotiate a treaty.
Unexpected opposition within the govern-
ment party, arising primarily from the former Yoshida faction,
appears to have convinced the Hatoyama government that a
drive for immediate relations might split the party. The cabi-
net decision to continue to seek a treaty and not abandon Japan's
claims to the Southern Kurils apparently was made in recogni-
tion of popular coolness toward "selling territory for fish."
Prime Minister Hatoyama's faction has de-
ferred the Japanese-Soviet issue until after the upper house
elections in early July. Most Japanese, however, regard the
resumption of diplomatic relations as inevitable.
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5. AUSTRIAN RECOGNITION OF COMMUNIST CHINA
REPORTED IMMINENT
the
Austrian Foreign Ministry reportear
told
in early June
that Austrian recognition of Communist China is imminent.
The Austrian ambassadors in Washington and London are
said to have been instructed to submit to Vienna their recom-
mendations on timing and their estimates of probable Ameri-
can and British reactions.
Comment Foreign Minister Figl told
last December that Austria
could not afford to "get out in front" and there would be no
question of Austrian recognition of the Peiping government
until such time as China's status had been regulated by the
United Nations. Since that time, however, the question has
evidently been under further consideration in the Foreign
Ministry, where there has been pressure for recognition from
trade circles as well as from the Austrian ambassador in Mos-
cow0
press
reports of the recent relaxation of controls on deliveries to
China by British colonies evoked an immediate reaction from
the Austrian Ministry of Trade and that Austrian interest in
China trade is "particularly acute" now in view of the expected
departure on 22 June of an Austrian trade delegation to China.
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6. ASSASSINATION THREAT REPORTEDLY CAUSED RHEE
TO CANCEL ADDRESS
Comment
President Rhee failed to make his sched-
uled Memorial Day address on 6 June,
reportedly because he had received in-
formation that he and Assembly Speaker
Yi Ki-pung were in danger of assasination.
President Rhee's action reflects the at-
mosphere of tension which has prevailed
in South Korea since the election. Vice-President-elect Chang
Myon is also reported being heavily guarded.
Opposition assemblymen have demanded an
investigation into the alleged use of bribes to secure the re-
election on 8 June of Yi Ki-pung, Rhee's defeated vice-presi-
dential running mate, as speaker of the assembly. The national
police, which may also be investigated by the assembly
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7. BURMESE REBUFFED BY CHINESE COMMUNISTS ON
BORDER ISSUE
Comment Chou's refusal
to accept the
present boundary line and
his rebuff of Burmese pre-
mier U Nu's request in
February for a boundary
commission are the clear-
est indications thus far that
Peiping plans to hold its
boundary claims in re-
serve as a lever to influ-
ence Burmese policy.
Chinese Communist
maps show a large portion
of the Icachin State as well
as the Wa States to be Chi-
nese territory. For the
BURMA
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Area claimed by China
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past year Rangoon has sought a settlement of the boundary,
apparently in the hope of capitalizing on the Chinese Commu-
nist campaign to convince the Burmese of China's peaceful
intentions. The disappointment expressed by Rangoon points
up the development of Burmese disillusionment with Chinese
Communist professions of "peace and coexistence." U Nu has
complained of Chinese Communist and Soviet intervention in
Burmese political affairs.
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
(Information as of 1700, 8 June)
Israel has made an official protest to the
UN Security Council over Egypt's continued blockade of the Suez
Canal. The Israeli delegate to the UN stated that Egyptian author-
ities were detaining a Greek ship, the Panngia, which was bound
from Haifa to the Gulf of Aqaba port of Eilat. The delegate said
that this was of "special gravity at a time when the Security Coun-
cil has just reaffirmed once again the need to re-establish full
compliance with the general armistice agreements." Last Febru-
ary Israel imposed censorship on reports of Egyptian detention of
another Greek ship on a similar trip, apparently to avoid an inter-
national political debate on the blockade at that time. This protest
suggests that Israel, which indicated dissatisfaction with the re-
cent Security Council resolution, intends to try to keep the Arabs
on the defensive diplomatically and to continue to press for a
settlement of the basic nrohlems left illsettled by the Hammar-
skjold mission.
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