Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NCT (NAVAL AIDE) 24 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE DECLASSIFIED WASHINGTON E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 November 7, 1952 By DEB NLT, Date 4-10-85 TOP SECREIT SECURITY INFORMATION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS FRANCE We have informed the French Embassy that the Secretary does not feel in a position to state definitely whether he is prepared to undertake tripartite talks on the Middle East Defense Organization, Southeast Asia, and Yugoslavia in Paris at the time of the December NATO meet- ing, as requested by the French. While the Secretary has no particular objection to the proposal, we told the French he could not make a commitment on it until liaison had been established with the new administration and its views obtained. The French Embassy, which indicated complete understanding of our position, is informing the Foreign Office accordingly. SOVIET UNION The permanent Yugoslav delegate to the UN, Barisic, has given a member of the US delegation further comments on Soviet policy. The Yugoslav official believes Soviet policy now is placing far greater emphasis than before on propa- - ganda, particularly to the Far East and the Moslem world, and that the USSR hopes to interpret the Eisenhower victory to those areas as proof of greater US domestic reaction, aggressiveness and war provocation. This, he thought, would strike a responsive note with many Asian neutralists and many Western Europeans. Mr. Barisic agreed with out representative that the Eisenhower victory would give pause to the Soviet militarists, but stressed his belief that the militarists are now taking a back seat to the propagandists. He personally believes the USSR will not provoke a major war for at least several years and that Soviet leaders, despite their alarms, do not believe the US will do so either. When asked whether a shift of basic Soviet policy from a militaristic to a propagandistic level would cause any change in Korea, the Yugoslav said he thought the USSR, now that the US elections are over, may very well come forth with a TOP SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION