Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLT/Naval Aide)407 OFFICE OF DECLASSIFIED THE SECRETARY OF STATE E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 WASHINGTON State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 By DEB NLT, Date 9-10-85 October 13, 1952 TOP SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS SOVIET In commenting on Vyshinsky's recent statement to UNION French Ambassador Joxe in Moscow to the effect that the USSR wished to reach a general understanding with France, Ambassador Kennan in Bonn observes that the Vyshinsky approach is obviously a major Soviet move aimed at splitting the Western community. Kennan believes this step must have been prepared some time in advance and that his own expulsion may well have been connected with it. Kennan feels there would be great danger in our intervening and trying to dissuade the French from going ahead with any discussions with the Soviets, as he thinks it likely that the Soviets are counting on exactly this for the first important decisive effect in the knowledge that such action on our part could be made to appear as a crass example of American dictation. Kennan feels sure that Foreign Minister Schuman and Ambassador Joxe will not be taken in if talks are permitted to take their course but will even- tually strike the hard bottom of Soviet ill-will and duplicity which underlies all the USSR's diplomatic moves toward non-Communist governments and on which any attempt of a Western European country to arrange its relationship independently with the Kremlin is bound to founder in the last analysis. He thinks, therefore, that we should only insist that the French consult us in any matters af- fecting our national interest or our interest as a member of NATO and an occupying power in Germany. KOREA A member of Israel's UN Mission has given our Mission the substance of a conversation which the former had with Soviet representative Malik on Friday. During the conversation, which was mostly about Korea, Malik said that he personally thought the US did not want peace in Korea. The Israel repre- sentative replied that the considered opinion of his government and himself personally was that the US sincerely desires peace in Korea. TOP SECRET SECURITY INEORMATION