CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 19, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUMMARY
GENERAL
Finland reportedly to request return of territory ceded to USSR
(page 3).
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WESTERN EUROPE
New French Socialist proposal may remove a major stumbling
block to EDC ratification (page 4).
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GENERAL
1. Finland reportedly to request return of territory ceded to USSR:
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The Finnish Government reportedly plans to
approach Moscow for the return of Porkkala
and most of the Karelian area ceded to the
USSR in 1947. It does not intend to bargain
and will offer nothing in exchange, but will stress the importance
of such a Soviet gesture in developing normal friendly relations.
This proposal has no connection with recent rumors of a possible
exchange of territory between the two countries.
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t e inns feel a recen
developments in the Soviet Union may enhance the possibilities
of the proposal being considered.
Comment: Because of the recent.Soviet
"peace overtures" to the We tit is possible that the Finns might
try such an approach. It is unlikely that Moscow would grant such
a request in view of its general distrust of Finnish motives and
its sensitivity over the security of Leningrad.
FAR EAST
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WESTERN EUROPE
4. New French Socialist proposal may remove a major stumbling block
to EDC ratification.
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French Socialist leader Guy Mollet has
informed the American Embassy that a
"solemn declaration" by the North Atlantic
Council affirming the continuing character
of NATO would satisfy Socialist reservations on EDC ratification.
The Embassy, which sees in this suggestion
real progress in French Socialist thinking, feels that the proposed
NATO declaration would dissipate French fears of a unilateral
British withdrawal from the Continent.
Comment: Mollet has consistently main-
tained that he could not swing a key Socialist bloc in the French
Assembly to back EDC ratification unless Britain assumed addition-
al specific defense obligations on the Continent in order to counter-
balance the growing strength of West Germany,
Mollet is also interested in furthering the
development of NATO's political and economic aspects in order
that the larger Atlantic community may counterbalance the Catholic
influence predominant in the six prospective EDC countries.
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