Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

OFFICE OF DECLASSIFIED THE SECRETARY OF STATE EO. 12065, Sec. 3-402 WASHINGTON State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 DE B NLT, Date 9-9-85 April 11, 1952 By SEGRET SECURITY INF ORMA TION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS SOVIET NOTE The Department is considering the nature of the Western reply to Wednesday's Soviet note on the German peace treaty and has asked High Commissioner McCloy for his views. In so doing we suggested that the reply might indicate: 1) a strong reaffirma- - tion of our policy of Western integration including Germany; and 2) our willingness to have the High Commissioner: or their representatives meet to discuss procedures for obtaining an investigation of the conditions for pre-elections, proceeding on the assumption that the UN Commission would be used. Our suggestion that the three Western powers should consult in Washington on coordinating their reply has been countered by a British proposal to meet in London immediately after the Easter holidays. The only substantive comment the British have yet made is that Mr. Eden would probably oppose a four-power commission to examine pre-electoral conditions in place of the UN Commission. EUROPEAN DEFENSE Embassy Paris reports that the French COMMUNITY NEGOTIATIONS have indicated their intention to get the EDC treaty initialled by the heads of the delegations by the end of this month, which would permit the final signature of the ministers before May 15th. Ability to do this will depend on the settlement of certain outstanding questions, especially the matter of Germany's financial contribution. The French are opposed to setting a public deadline at present when a number of important points are still unsettled. As to the site for signing the EDC treaty the French are not in favor of Strasbourg, which we had proposed. They are anxious that it should be signed in Paris, and they have no objection to the Contractual Relations agreement with Germany being signed in Bonn. Our Embassy comments that since the ability of the French and German governments to overcome domestic political opposition on the Contractuals and on the EDC is undoubt- edly a major factor in the current situation, we ought to go along with the wishes of Schuman and Adenauer on this point. SECRET SECURITY INFORMA TION