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TOP SECRET E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) DECLASSIFIED of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972 Dept. SYNLTW NARS Date 9.18.72 By May 9, 1945 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Subject: Current Foreim Developments AMERICAN VIEVS REGARDING AUSTRIAN SITUATION COM- MUNICATED TO SOVIET GOVERNMENT. The American Charg in Moscow has been instructed to inform the Soviet Government that while we do not object to the establish- ment of native local administration in occupied areas we do object to the Soviet Government's permitting the establishment of a government claiming to represent all of Austria, including the American occupation zone. Full consultation should have taken place and effective consultation will be possible only when Allied represen- tatives arrive in Vienna and joint control begins. Until then the American Government is not associated with and accepts no responsibility for mensures taken in the Vienna arem. The Chargé is also to restate the Ameriom position regarding the zone of Vienna and he is to point out that it is the Soviet Government which has been re- fusing to follow the German precedent and subdivide greater Vienna in a manner which will give us the fa- cilities we require. AMERICAN REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE TRANSFER OF GERMAN TERRITORY TO POLISH ADMINISTRATION. The Chargé in Moscow has been instructed to deliver to the Soviet Foreign Office a memorandum acknowledging the receipt of Soviet comunication which stated that the transfer to Polish civil administration of certain German areas has no "NATIONAL