Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLT (Naval Aids) 349 OFFICE OF DECLASSIFIED THE SECRETARY OF STATE E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 WASHINGTON State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 By DEB NLT, Date 9-9-80 April 14, 1952 TOP SECRET SECURITY INF ORMATION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS EUROPEAN DEFENSE Secretary Acheson has sent a personal message to COMMUNITY the foreign ministers of the countries concerned NEGOTLATIONS with the European Defense Community treaty and the contractual agreements with the German Federal Republic in which he urges them to join with him in a supreme effort to conclude these pacts in the very near future. Believing that a public announce- ment of a definite signature date is necessary to renew the impetus provided by the Lisbon Conference, the Secretary has indicated his preference for May 9 as the announced deadline and has observed that this would mean that the draft EDC treaty and the contractual conventions would have to be in- itialed by the negotiators by the end of April at the latest. The Secretary warned the foreign ministers that the risks inherent in delay were so great as to present no alternative to the setting of a target date. Specifically, he stated these risks to be: (1) the threat that German public opinion might waver under the pressure of the Soviet proposal on German unity; (2) the uncertainty of the Congressional at- titude toward MSA appropriations if real success toward a united European defense effort cannot be reported by the time the appropriations are taken under consideration, probably the middle of May; and (3) the danger that the expected early end of the present Congressional session would prevent the ratification of the German contractual agreements until 1953, unless they are laid before the Senate no later than the middle of May and that even this date would make action difficult. The Secretary further suggested that the problem of the signature ceremonies might be resolved by selecting The Hague as the site for a simultaneous signature of both the contractual agreements and the EDC treaty. BOLIVIAN The apparently complete success of the Bolivian revolu- - REVOLUTION tionary forces has prompted President Odria of Peru to propose sending a special envoy to Washington to convey to Assistant Secretary Miller his apprehensions regarding the Bolivian si- tuation and Argentina's connection with it. President Odria fears that the TOP SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION