Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLT (Naval Adel20. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE the WASHINGTON June 1, 1951 S E SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS PARIS FOUR In delivering the notes to the Soviet Govern- - POWER TALKS ment to M. Gromyko yesterday each of the three Western delegates in turn expressed his hope that the notes would have a positive result and that the Soviets would agree to a CFM. Gromyko accepted the notes for delivery to his government, but he pointed out the following "factual inaccuracies"1 1) the Soviet position had always been that agreement on a complete agenda was conditioned upon agreement to include the NAT and US bases item on the agenda; and 2) the Western notes refer to the Soviet item on the NAT, while the Soviet proposal pertains both to the NAT and the American military bases. The meetings were recessed until Monday. GREECE-TURKEY The North Atlantic Council of Deputies began its discussions yesterday on Greek-Turkish - association with the NATO. The British deputy proposed (without having given our deputy any advance notice) that the Study Group be requested to study and report on the military aspects of the problem. Our deputy says that he had probably discussed this with the French before the meeting and that he made a somewhat lame apology to our deputy later for not having discussed it with him. The other deputies in the meeting gave their support immediately to the British proposal. Each deputy in turn made comments: the Portuguese deputy said his government opposed reek-Turkish associa- tion; most other deputies said they were uninstructed in the position of their governments, but favored a careful study of the military aspects before considering the political decision; only the Italian deputy came out strongly in favor of Greek-Turkish association, but he also agreed to refer the mat- ter to the study group. Our deputy feels that this move represents a delay. - ing tactic. In the meeting he stressed the great importance of moving ahead rapidly with consideration of the problem. GERMANY Chancellor Adenauer has sent to Liaison Bonn an intelligence report concerning Soviet military preparations in the East Zone of Germany. Adenauer said that he attached DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 IOPSCRE State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 By D DEB NLT, Date 9-5-85