Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLT (Navel Aidetra OF OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 WASHINGTON State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 By DEB NLT, Date 9-9-85 March 19, 1952 TOP SECRET SECURITY INFORMATTON SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS USSR Several draft replies to the Soviet note on a German treaty have been put forward and discussed on a tripartite basis in London, but there is still one major point of disagreement between the French and British on the one hand and ourselves on the other: The French and British wish to raise questions concerning the details of the Soviet proposals, such as the Germans army and the possible limitations which the Soviets envis- - age, the matter of Germany's final frontiers, and Germany's membership in the United Nations. We would prefer not to take up any substantive details of the Soviet proposal in our reply. We feel strongly that to enter into any discussion of the treaty proposals at this time would tend to divert the essential emphasis away from the principal point which we wish to make in our reply--namely that a first step must be the creation of conditions for free elections such as the UN Commission was set up to investigate. We also feel that if our replies should take up the various points which the French and British have suggested it might set off a cycle of correspondence with the Russians which would serve merely to delay the realization of the European Defense Community and our agreement with the Germans on Contractual Relationships. The site of our talks concerning the Allied reply to the Soviets has now shifted from London to Paris, where Messrs. Eden and Schuman and Ambassador Dunn will also confer with Chancellor Adenauer today. INDIA On Monday Ambassador Bowles called again on Bajpai, the Secretary General of the Ministry of External Affairs, at the latter's request. Bajpai told Bowles that following their conversation over the weekend he had sent a memorandum to Nehru urging him to bring stronger pressure to bear on the Chinese Communist government to modify its posi- tion in the Korean truce talks. Bajpai then read, apparently in full, a lengthy cable to Ambassador Panikkar in Peking drafted by Nehru himself in which Nehru requested Panikkar to make known the following Indian views in clear and definite language to the head of the Peking Government: 1) India is greatly concerned by the apparent deterioration of the truce talks in Korea TOP SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION