Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE E.O. 12/105, Sec. 3-202 State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 WASHINGTON By. DED NLT, Date 9-9-80 March 14, 1952 SECRET SECURITY INEORMATION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS USSR The Department has informed Embassies London and Paris and our mission in Bonn that we feel the Western replies to the Soviet note on the German peace treaty should be identical rather than merely parallel. We have agreed with Mr. Eden's earlier sug- gestion that complete consultation with the Germans is essential, although we do not believe that the tripartite exchange of views can be completed in time to consult with Chancellor Adenauer in Paris on March 19th, as Mr. Eden had suggested. In Paris Quai d'Orsay officials have made the following points in interpreting the Soviet note. M. Parodi stressed that the note is de- signed primarily to influence German opinion in a direction away from integration with the West through the EDC, the Schuman plan, etc. Another Foreign Office official M. La Tournelle, pointed out two new elements which the Soviet note introduced into the situation: 1) Soviet consent to the rearmament of Germany, which, he said, would undoubtedly cause considerable embarrassment to Communists and other enemies of a German contribution to Western defense; and 2) the opening up of German prospects for trade with the entire Soviet satellite area, which, in view of Germany's rapidly expanding economy, would undoubtedly prove very attractive. M. Sauvagnargues, whom the Embassy also consulted, said that he would not exclude the possibility that if our reply were confined to the question of free elections, the Soviets might counter by admitting the UN Investigating Committee into their Zone of Germany after all, thereby keeping and in fact increasing the propaganda pressure on the West. He also considers within the realm of possibility that if the Western reply to the Soviet note should bring up the question of Germany's eastern frontier, the Soviets might counter by offering to discuss that subject too, at a quadripartite conference. Sauvagnargues therefore feels that our reply must place the issue of Germany into a larger context. IRAN Mr. Prud'homme, the International Bank representative in Tehran, reports that he and his advisers are planning to return to Washington in the immediate future and that there will probably be no more meetings between Bank mission and the Iranians' SECRET SECURITY INFORMA TION