Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

OFFICE OF to THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON E.O. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. NLT, Data SECRET 9-10-8 August 22, 1952 By DEB SECURITY INF ORMA TION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS The Saar On instructions from Chancellor Adenauer, Mr. Blankenhorn, the Chief of the Political Section of the German Foreign Office, gave our mission in Bonn a copy of a German memorandum on the Saar which the Germans have sent to the French, dated August 18. Blankenhorn said that no copy was given to the British but that he had sketched the contents to the British Deputy High Commissioner, He stressed that Adenauer had wished Ambassador Donnelly to have a copy on a personal and confidential basis. The memorandum states that the creation of a Curopean territory of the Saar presupposes that it should be founded on democratic principles; it is of utmost importance that there be no dealing over the heads of the people of the Saar, but that this population be permit- ted, through representatives of a freely elected Diet, whose legitimacy can be questioned byy nonone, to cooperate and work together as soon as possible in the formulation of a solution. Moreover, the solution will be genuinely European, the memorandum continues, if the other states of the Western community, as well as Germany and France, work together with the Saar representatives in this effort. The memorandum rejects a recent French proposal which made a division between the political and the economic principles involved. It points out that French economic domination of the Saar would inevitably be tantamount of political domination and that internal political autonomy for the Saar is incompatible with economic control by another country. Moreover, it points out, the principle of non-discrimi- nation, which is clearly expressed in the Schuman Plan treaty and the European Defense Community treaty, is also irreconcilable with the discrimination embodied in the present economic conventions. The memorandum proposes that a Commission of Experts should be established to study the areas which are not regulated in the Schuman Plan treaty and to find a solution which takes cognizance of the mutual economic interests arising from proximity of the Saar to both France and Germany. This Commission should simultaneously draft a transitional arrangement that will take account of the interests of the Saar, the German and the French economies. SECRET SEC URITY INF ORMA TION