NEAR EAST/AFRICA DIVISION INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY FOR WEEK ENDING 23 FEBRUARY 1950

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 23, 1950
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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Assembly votes electoral reform . .
Bill represents malor w_ep toward morc, dammratte syst6,m
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Primo Minister's views apperar Dicipitred by Nuri SAdd
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NEAR. E,AST,iii.ettic A IV .-/h-l..),IciENCE SUMMARY
Assembly votes electszLis2lAm: Ihe govei-nment party's long-awaited
electoral reform bill, now in the final ,stages of being enacted into law,
presents a landmark in the developmant oi the Turkish Repoblic. The
'bill obviously will not gearanteo l'urkev free elections on the Western
model. Ne.vertheless, it does repgeseri, rvajot step toward a more
democratic system--a point teaognized by the principal opposition party
in affording the 2116AStfre its support in the Assembly. 13y providing for
setret ballots, openly counted, and for judicial supervision of the voting,
Ile bill Rromises that this year's etections will be characteriaed by
z. degree a freedom virtmlly unthinkable five years ago, when President
inonti first broached the idea a a muiti-partty system in Turkey. All
in all, the. imminent enactment of thl ,bill offers remarkable evidence
- that Turkey's leaders, despite thar 1,:ears about their Sovietneighbors,
are going ahead with their gradutil ext(tnsion to the opposition of, greater
opportunities for attempting t';ic unseat them by constitutional means.
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Suweidi's stateneto k. Prime Minister Tawfiq Suweid19s recent
enunciation of. policy tends to confirm the suspicion th t 3s.Turi Said is
still pulling the strings. in part, SuwEidi's statement.. represented senti-
ments almost any Iraqi Reline ministEA' would express: the., usual lip
service was paid to such desiderata as improved health standards,
highway construction, and education, th iu & patent eort to speed a
ta.vorable? decision on the. pending IBRD loltri application &mei& approved
the establishment o';;. a Development 13...clard carwy out projected economic
improvements. Two key points in the dechration, however, indicate that
harmonious working mlationship exists17,,et-ween the two leaders. The
stress placed by &veldt on his determination to strengthen Iraqi ties
with the UK echoes a point of viow toms associated with Nutt, who (perhaps
coincidentally) is now in London, osi-:_krisibly on private business. Su-weidts
Oedge tomaintain 1::Iiendly relations with c)the r countries, "especially
.-.5ur neighbors," implies that Nuri.'st.,..spirt.tion for union with Syria
will receive discreet government support aven though n whirlwind court-
ship is nr.A. on the books. A question rernains, however-, as to how long
Suweidi will be willing to head the terizm with Nuri calling signals grom
the bench--or how long NuR-i wiil. b.,t.-D.t.:isfieti with Su-weidi as his field
captain.
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Saatiawi!: fleckEtt: 4J1.44-1a-44,utt p3ii1iiat ieader
litania, is a most aget.leitle DILL. on the subject of Libya9s
f131.4ire gioverarneni.. The thers dicecly c:oerned with ibis subject
i3:g!4,.ve toufild it a controversial?:1-4,11, ETypt backi-; a unitary state, be1iev-
.7-Ig alat As domioil by Cywc;ta.a c*,z 14verted. The Emir
evrsagrair. bas been quoted as appg-ovrz, Ow :British and French plans
,:,.stabtish three separate ta.?,ti s.:Lni-autoncmous governments with
Libra, bill', he recently irdicateci to UN comnaissioner Pt It that a unitary
stAe, with himseiii- at the helm, would .lot.b. distasteful. For his part,
PEAt oppcses implamentatio ?p th pgesent time, on the
grovind that the UN has ealled or thc.iAyals work out the prnbiern
ijI4rnsPives, evert ithough hecinsider3 -.edarated sitate the why practical
sokition i t.he ltng run. Despite tk., substagati%i differances ck opinion,
however, Saadawl. has mag e --A(ithi4 speog tf'. some two weeks to exprets
Agreement with the Egyptians, the Emir, Pt., and ihe British Administra,.
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..kadawi has since attt it Locptit his-apparent multipulicity
of views as resulting ttom int*rpreliet trouble. However,hs dirficulties
probably stern MOTS frorn desiAl cAlarnpitirt Arab interests -without
(2oming -out too strongly in J'.;kit,Dr (A1,2L mr, wWirn Saarlawi considers
a British puppet. Saadawi's expianatory statement that he favor-sd three
separate administrations -which might. event.ually 1:m united under the
Emir suggests that he reality 4784E, a federation in Libya ?,though one
loose enough to prseveht his iN4ing overshadowed, a.:?, td in Trip()titan a,
by Prime Minister Omar Mausour oi Cyrenaica, who would probably be
the Emir's choice as huad Libyan Cabinea.
Rakistal hits back: The Agghan tiovornmoit i6 ii)O-W discovering that
Its Open attempts to stirovert Paidstan's boder ftibeamen under the
bw,.,ner ot an independent "P $st-n7 opened the way to what
may prove t-o be jlar more ef.i.;eictive:Qt:ack::. on its own position, in
et-unto:4ring Atghunistan's pc .m()-5g its tribe6men, Pakista,n
Ons included in its appal tribp41 breaaren acss the border, on
whose icyalty the stability kOi. Athan GovGi-nment ultimately depends,
arid there is f7102-e than ?k h t Patis(anis hope that a etraragc,
wivernment in Kabul mir,r,ht L-esult. An additional unsettl-
itqq. i'ac.tor tor is the u;,.VaiTy beelve,n two highly ambitious '
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inna1'.0etense, 'who pt;abiy c,7,4(1. the support of the urrny,
? LtEtaltre.Miiistr oy. Abdul Majid, who is
rty?vimired try Kabut S yovng ini4lie,u;tuals and probably could
TnAF3itTy.1 more popuizir suppoki thAn Dr,t,1161. Should either tribal unrest
.D.aud.-Majid rivalry pri)t:Alc.,e '-;.i.f.,::.11t.tIonary situation, Pakistar
probably attempt te:, as3istic p inI Tan, outlawed half
4.)t ex-King Anianuitan, Oa filo :H%zrat Sahib &It Shor Bazaar,
4,4:_tr,13anistan's leading mulla?cithor f whom could be expected to
cirFcDnsiderable pw7 b4clang..
retlentiLeroposedi&iflLQOLA73AirkIrce and en Alexia
undt;ubtecity simptvy cokiLitik, ...wilLi:aistrative situation o;i;*
ss,:J,T,I.din,g. There flas i-1.,,ibc..L;e line a demarcation between
dutics 1 oz., to Dzes d, i ger,xlaemerie has becal
dubious position ot tuving its Rtx-.6titi.iG duties supervised largely
hv civiiinn Mtry (r)i' d, that fact that it remained
%atter the ge.sierait orders ot the 3e,cie, A Stati :and was paid and equipped
by 'f?,he Ministry o N&Ucni Mieriso. thlification of' these two security
,alfganivAlards 1lTay vil janU :hie.oememt, of greater economy
vial as ea-icier:lay.
ECA Arno4,iadw. Washinicrton have digkeud
macr,B a tormast wheiraby 1;osh-akteirpul. Litge.i, .i4.Apiiied spocific projaets
nProred by ECA, inny &e ulizci i..edut-t1 -Ead even eliminate an
.---,Airnated deficit off 155 miiiiedt Turf,15.sh liras (atixtmt $55 million) in
Tuatish budget gor 1950-51. Thea priocipat Ecmaimiiv dtflcuty
-vom trhe tact Shnt theLka proj4,..f,s iLt