Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of Great Britain Sir Oliver Franks, H. Freeman Matthews, and George Perkins

SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION 4323 DEPARTMENT OF STATE 105 Memorandum of Conversation Siz 83 DATE: March 13, 1952 SUBJECT: Production of Prohibition of/Influence Hines in Germany; Reply to Soviet note PARTICIPANTS: Sir Oliver Franks, British Ambassador The Secretary Mr. H. F. Natthews, Deputy Under Secretary Mr. G. W. Perkins, Assistant Secretary, EUR COPIES TO: S/S G C S/P Authority DECLASSIFIED (State) Dept. Ltr 8-11-06) NLT- 85-24 8500252 AND RECORDE GER SOVENS EX EUR By DEB NLT Date 8-18-86 MB, BIRAH U. s. SOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-61120-1 Sir Oliver first handed me un Aide-Menoire concerning prohibition ones in Germany and asked that we urge our Government to join vith the UK in making representations to the EDC that this type of munitions should not be manu- factured in Germany. Sir Oliver then read mo a telegram from Mr. Eden, a copy of which is attached. I told Sir Oliver that we were giving the problem of the ansver to the Anssian note careful study but it appeared to me to be a matter which required very earoful consideration n.s there ware various pitfalls in connection with it. For instance, we might agree on all-German elections only to find as a result ve did lava an all-German Govornment which vould be in the same situation as the present Austrian Government. Sir Oliver then road a wire from Anbassador Harvey in Paris reporting a conversation with Nr. Schuman. In this conversation Mr. Sebuman had indieated that he agreed to a discussion of the ansver to the Soviet note at the Council of Burope Ministerial Meeting on March 19 in Paris. Mr. Schuman had gone on to say he folt there vere two objectives in the Soviet note. One of the jobjectives vas Germany, and they bnd provided something for all of the elements in Germany. For the for the Industrialists--markets: for the soldiers they had offered an for the Nazis they had offered reinstatement. This all SECREF SEGURITY INFORMATION