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INTRODUCTION: Since the weekend, monitored Soviet and Satellite radio broadcasts
have carried relatively little about the imminent CFM meetings. A Warsaw commentary
pursues the previously established Soviet line that the "diplomatic moves of the
Soviet Union forced the Western Powers to withdraw from their positions and to admit
the failure of their tactical methods, including the famous airlift."
GERMAN "UNITY" AND THE GERMAN PEOPLE'S CONGRESS ELECTIONS: The issue of German
"unity" receives continued attention in broadcasts from both Moscow and the Soviet-
controlled German radios. Moscow, however, has not yet commented on the presumably
unexpected results of the Soviet-Zone German People's Congress elections. And
although some Soviet-controlled German sources speak of the elections as "an un-
ambiguous victory of the democratic forces in the Soviet Zone," they also rail against
the "dangerous double-dealers in the democratic camp" who "camouflage their policy
of double-crossing" by "pretending to support the People's Congress movement for unity
and a just peace." According to Walter Ulbricht, a People's Congress leader, "the
task from now on is to win over most of the voters who said 'no' to the fight for
German unity." The Bonn Constitution and the West-Berlin "occupation statute" are
subject to familiar attacks; they are said to be obvious attempts "to face the Paris
Conference with accomplished disruptive measures."
OTHER POSSIBLE ISSUES AT THE CFM CONFERENCE: Possible Conference issues other than
German "unity" receive only peripheral attention. A Soviet broadcast review of
Moscow's PRAVDA includes an implicitly approving report of a statement attributed to
General Clay. He is said to have told journalists "that measures for the lifting of
transport restrictions are a proof of good will on both sides," and "that he
personally considers Soviet participation in an international control over the Ruhr
to be reasonable if corresponding guarantees will be supplied." The Prague radio,
commenting on the approaching CFM Conference, contrasts the Soviet policy of German
demilitarization and democratization with the alleged Western policy of reviving
German nationalism and militarism.
CONFERENCE PROSPECTS: Few allusions are made to the possible outcome of the CFM
Conference. The above-mentioned broadcast of a PRAVDA article makes an invidious
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