CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2004
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• Publication Date: September 14, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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14 September 1955
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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CONTENTS
1, COMMENT ON RESULTS OF ADENAUER TALKS IN
MOSCOW (page 3).
2. NEHRU REPORTED TO PERCEIVE IMPROVEMENT
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MOSCOW
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The Soviet-West German communique
published in Moscow on 13 September
revealed agreement to establish diplo-
matic relations and exchange ambassa-
dors subject to approval by the Bundestag and the Supreme
Soviet. It stated that trade discussions would be started in
the near future. The communique itself did not refer to the
issue of German prisoners in the USSR.
The Soviet Union, by winning its de-
mand for establishment of full diplomatic relations, ad-
vanced its drive to win recognition of the existence of two
German states. During the talks the Soviet delegation
stated more bluntly than ever its insistence that German
unity under NATO was impossible, and refused to accept
Adenauer's demand that progress toward unity be a pre-
requisite to establishing relations. The rigid Soviet stand
foreshadows a continuing stalemate on unification at the
October Geneva foreign ministers' meeting. The agreement
to establish relations will be described by Soviet represen-
tatives at the Geneva conference as an important stepping-
stone toward a European security system.
The final conference agreement will
probably be welcomed in West Germany even though Ade-
nauer yielded on his minimum negotiating position to
achieve it. Prior to the conference, Adenauer informed
Western officials that he wanted only to exchange "diplo-
matic agents," and not ambassadors, in order to emphasize
that normal relations could not exist until his nation was
reunited.
Adenauer's yielding on this point and
his failure to gain any agreement on unity will not pro-
voke any sharp domestic response. The West Germans
generally expected the conference to agree on establishing
'diplomatic relations without making any real progress on
unity. Separate Soviet assurances on the release of German
prisoners will be hailed as a personal triumph for the
chancellor--this agenda subject being the most important
domestically. Bonn will probably delay ratification of the
agreement until Moscow has demonstrated its good faith
by releasing a substantial number of prisoners at an early
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2. NEHRU REPORTED TO PERCEIVE IMPROVEMENT IN
US-INDIAN RELATIONS
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Prime Minister Nehru recently told
the Indian UN delegation that relations
with the United States have grown much
closer in the past six months, accord-
ing to a statement made to the American
Nehru said that the United States sin-
cerely wants peace, is a true democracy, and is basically
anticolonial. Consequently, he said, India must feel closer
to the United States and the West than to the Sino-Soviet
bloc. He added, however, that New Delhi's policy of non-
alignment is not to be abandoned.
Comment There have been several reports from
prominent Indians of pro-American
statements by Nehru since his return from Moscow.
Krishna Menon, Nehru's personal adviser on foreign af-
fairs, has also defended the United States in public and
private in recent weeks.
A change in India's attitude as suggested
by these reports may result from increasing Indian con-
sciousness of Sino-Soviet power in Asia, as well as from
India's need for greatly increased foreign economic aid if
the goals of its second Five-Year Plan are to be met.
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