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Kingdom to con tinue discussions when fundamental agreements previously
reached had been disregarded by the Soviet Government would have been
futile. It would have been equally fruitless to continue such dis-
cussions in the face of the unmistakable intention of the Soviet
Government to undermine, and indeed to destroy the rights of the three
governments as Occupying Powers in Berlin as a price for lifting the
blockade, illegally imposed in the first instance and still unlawfully
maintained. The three Governments therefore dispatched identical notes
on September 22nd to the Soviet Government. In those notes after re-
stating their position on the specific points at issue they asked the
Soviet Government whether it was prepared to remove the blockade
measures which it had imposed and thereby to establish conditions
which would permit a continuation of discussions.
11. The reply of the Soviet Government in its notes to the three
Governments of September 25, 1948 is unsatisfactory.
As regards the introduction and continued circulation and use
in Berlin of the German mark of the Soviet Zone, the Soviet Government
misrepresents the position of the three Western Occupying Powers. The
latter have made it clear from the outset that they do not desire to
exercise any control over the financial arrangements in the Soviet Zone
of Occupation, but are insisting on those conditions only which would
provide adequate Four-Power control over the financial arrangements for
the introduction and continued circulation and use of the German mark
of the Soviet Zone as the sole currency in Berlin.
As regards control of the trade of Berlin the Soviet Govern-
ment contrary to its previous attitude now states its willingness to
agree to the establishment of four-power control over the issuance of
licenses for the import and export of goods provided that agreement
is reached on all other questions. It is clear, after more than six
weeks of discussions from the Soviet Government's persistent refusal
to remove the blockade measures and its continued insistence on
other conditions which would enable it to destroy the authority and
rights of the United States, France and the United Kingdom as occupying
powers in Berlin that this conditional concession is illusory.
As regards air traffic between Berlin and the Western
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