Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLT (Naval Aide) 52 DEPARTMENT OF STATE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON July 14, 1950 TOP SECRE SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS YUGOSLAVIA The Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister has informed our Embassy in Belgrade that the Yugoslav Govern- ment has no further information on troop movements in the satellite states, although rumors continue to be current. The Yugoslav official added that Yugoslavia is watching the situation closely, but on balance is not worried and does not expect an attack. KOREA Our Embassy in Moscow reports that the Soviet Government has informed the Russian people of events in Korea in such a manner as to impress upon them the menace of "bourgeois imperialist forces" which are immediately victimizing the Chinese and Korean peoples but which have for their ultimate aim an attack on the USSR. The government is also stressing that under such conditions the role of the Russian people is to work harder and strengthen the Soviet state. Our Embassy adds that the current press campaign does not include statements that the Soviet army is ready to defend its country - -which would give the Russian people the impression that a threat to the USSR itself was imminent--no is any basis for use of the Soviet army for offensive action suggested. GERMANY High Commissioner McCloy has reported from Bonn a conversation between British High Commissioner Kirkpatrick and German Chancellor Adenauer, in which Adenauer stressed that unless the present "vacuum" in western preparations is remedied by some concrete measures in Europe, a total lack of confidence on the part of the West Germans would result. Adenauer expressed the fear that unless western powers take specific steps to convince the West Germans that some opportunity will be afforded them to defend their country in an emergency, the attitude favoring modification of West Germany's policy toward the USSR might be revived. While Adenauer acknowledged that a West German army as such is out of the question, DECLASSIFIED DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. & 1982 TOP SECRE State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 By DeB NLT, Date 6.5.88 -