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-2- come to us, among other sources, from the Prime Minister of Italy himself.). It ie the intention of all three Western Governments, who are completely together on this, to stand firm in defense of their right to be in Berlin and to accept no agreement in Moscow which would imply any abandonment of those rights. We feel that the real Soviet purpose in the Berlin matter is to disrupt the recovery of the Western Zones in Germany and thereby European recovery. DANUBE CONFERENCE It might be useful to emphasize that the Danube conference at which we are being consistently outvoted was not proposed by the United States. It stems from an agreement made in December 1946 during the Council of Foreign Ministers in New York at which, in exchange for an inclu sion in the satellite treaties of the principle of free navigation on the Danube, the Western Powers agreed to a conference within six months from the entry into force of these peace treaties to be composed of members of the Council of Foreign Ministers and the states bordering on the Danube. The draft Convention propos ed by the Soviets, which will undoubtedly be adopted by the conference, would be unacceptable to the United States, and our Delegation and the British and French will vote against it. THE EMPLOYEES OF THE SOVIET CONSULATE IN NEW YORK We are somewhat concerned lest the Un-American Acitivities Committee go too far in the direction of impairing the principle of immunity of consular officials and thereby establish precedents which can be turned against us in the Soviet Union and the iron curtain countries at great risk to our consular officials in those countries. As a matter of actual law, consular officials and

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