CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 23, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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SUMMARY
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FAR EAST
3. Bao Dat considering removal of Vietnamese Premier age .
7. Belgian businessmen resent small share in Moscow conference
"gains" (page 6).
6. French troop issue complicates Allied-German negotiations (page ).
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3. Bao Dai considering removal of Vietnamese Premier:
Bao Dai told American officials on 20 May
that Premier Tran Van Huu had incurred the
enmity of the French and therefore "mustgo."
He has been unable, however, to decide on a
successor. a time w s coming, Bao Dai said, when he must preside
personally over a "government of national union," but he refused to do so
now on the ground that French control, a condition he considers necessary
at the present time, would prevent any government from being popular.
Comment-. Since both Bao Dai and the French
are opposed to Huu's continuance in office, his removal appears certain.
Despite pressure from his Vietnamese advisers and the French to assume
the premiership, Bao Dai has consistently demurred. Interior Minister
Tam, a vigorous administrator with a reputation for brutality, thus
emerges as the outstanding candidate for this position.
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6. French troop issue complicates Allied-German negotiations.
High Commissioner McCloy warns that the
question of retention by the French forces in
Germany of the same privileges and immunities
as American and British forces will have to be
solved by the Foreign Ministers. German negotiators, he says, insist that
French forces should be restricted to the same privileges as other European
Defense Community nations.
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McCloy believes that enough progress has been
made on all other issues to enable the Foreign Ministers to sign the con-
tractual agreement on 26 May, as scheduled.
Comment- Up to now, the French Government
had tacitly agreed that the immunities of its troops from civil authority
would be derived from an EDC troop status convention. On 21 May, how-
ever, the French cabinet indicated that it wanted French troops to share
all the privileges and immunities still retained by the American and British
forces.
7. Belgian businessmen resent small share in Moscow conference "gains"-
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As a result of the large orders reportedly
secured by Western participants in the Moscow
Economic Conference, important Belgian in-
dustrialists, including representatives of the
Belgian Textile Federation, have complained to their government about
official antagonism toward the conference, according to a Foreign Office
spokesman. He implied that a clearer public understanding of the
American position on East-West trade is necessary to avoid embarrass-
ment to the West if, as he has heard, the Russians are now calling for
an economic conference on the governmental level.
Comment- Certain French, Dutch and West
German businessmen are also inclined to feel that they did not do as well
at the conference as their neighbors. In their efforts to play on such
international jealousies the Russians may find the depressed textile in-
dustry a particularly vulnerable spot.
Although Soviet propaganda has mentioned the
need for a governmental economic conference, Moscow has not taken any
steps to call one,
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