CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUMMARY
GENERAL
U! Comment on Soviet note on foreign ministers' conference
(page 3).
2. South Africa agrees to gradual withdrawal of air squadron
from Korea (page 3).
SOUTHEAST ASIA
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Taipei orders partial evacuation of Nationalist troops from
Burma (page 4).
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1. Comment on Soviet note on foreign ministers' conference.
The USSR's 4 August counterproposal
for a foreign ministers' conference with a broad agenda lessens
the possibility of four-power talks. The Kremlin's proposal
apparently is an effort to appeal to world opinion and create a
propaganda forum on its own terms. On Germany, the USSR
seeks to avoid the issue of free elections by calling for a dis-
cussion of German unity and the conclusion of a peace treaty.
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The West Germans will probably regard
the note as Moscow's "no" to unification, because of the absence
of any clear Soviet position on such questions as free all-German
elections and German neutrality.
As part of the Soviet effort to maintain
maximum maneuverability in any forthcoming negotiations, the
USSR raised an additional obstacle to negotiation by making an
appeal, though not a demand, for Chinese representation in big
power deliberations. France probably will welcome the Soviet
call for inclusion of Communist China as offering a chance of
easing the Indochina burden.
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2. South Africa agrees to gradual withdrawal of air squadron from
Korea.
Prime Minister Malan has refused to
reconsider his decision to withdraw the
South African fighter squadron now in
Korea, but has agreed to make the shift
in gradual stages and without any further public statements.
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Malan added that a token force could and
would remain in Korea, but he refused to say definitely for how
long, since South Africa's present policy is to undertake no new
postarmistice commitments,
Comment., Withdrawal of South Africa's
18-plane contingent, announced by Malan on 28 July, is the first
formal postarmistice withdrawal of one of the UN forces. Several
other UN members, including Colombia and the Philippines, have
previously discussed the departure of their forces following a truce.
Any withdrawal of forces would weaken the UN's bargaining position
at the forthcoming political conference.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
3. Taipei orders partial evacuation of Nationalist troops from Burma.,
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Chinese Nationalist foreign minister Yeh
informed Ambassador Rankin in Taipei
on 4 August that his government had
cabled Mong Hsat directing the evacuation
from Burma of 2,000 to 3,000 Nationalist
troops. According to Yeh, it is hoped
that two groups will be evacuated by 1
September. He added that Li Mi will
issue a statement dissolving his "Yunnan
anti-Communist national salvation force."
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Comment., Yeh's statements may indicate
a significant departure from previous Nationalist efforts to stall
implementation of the evacuation plan adopted by the four-power
committee in Bangkok.
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