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OCR Page 1 of 8TOP SECRET
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Rec'd 9-27-48
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DECLASSIFIED
TO:
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL SPECIAL
PRESS RELEANE 9-26-48
Dept. of State Aug-2-1973 No. 779
By NLT- H . NARS Date 5-22-75
NR :
WHITE ONE ZERO SEVEN
DTG: 270010 Z
State Department delivered to Soviet Ambassador here
6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time reply to the Soviet note received
yesterday. Lovett says this note and "white paper" prepared by
the Department covering the Moscow negotiations and including text
of the Soviet note yesterday, are being released to the press at
midnight.
Am sending you copy of the white paper to you in pouch
leaving here tonight. Text of the reply delivered to the Soviet
Embassy tonight follows:
His Excellency
"NATIONAL
AND
RECORDS
:
SERVICET
Alexander S. Payushkin,
Ambassador of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics.
The Acting Secretary of State presentshis compliments
to His Excellency, the Ambassador of the .Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, and has the honor to transmit the following communication;
1. The Governments of the United States, France and the
United Kingdom, conscious of their obligations under the charter of
the United Nations to settle disputes by peaceful means, took the
initiative on July 30, 1948, in approaching the Soviet Government
for informal discussions in Moscow in order to explore every possibility
of adjusting a dangerous situation which had arisen by reason of
measures taken by the Soviet Government directly challenging the rights
of the other occupying powers in Berlin. These measures, persistently
pursued, amounted to a blockade of land and water transport and com-
munication between the Western Zones of Germany and Berlin which not
only endangered the maintenance of the forces of occupation of
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Berlin Blockade, 1948-1949
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