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    "ocrText": "TOP SECRET\nTOP SEORET\nRec'd 9-27-48\nCopy\nDECLASSIFIED\nTO:\nTHE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES\nE. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nABOARD PRESIDENTIAL SPECIAL\nPRESS RELEANE 9-26-48\nDept. of State Aug-2-1973 No. 779\nBy NLT- H . NARS Date 5-22-75\nNR  :\nWHITE ONE ZERO SEVEN\nDTG: 270010 Z\nState Department delivered to Soviet Ambassador here\n6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time reply to the Soviet note received\nyesterday. Lovett says this note and \"white paper\" prepared by\nthe Department covering the Moscow negotiations and including text\nof the Soviet note yesterday, are being released to the press at\nmidnight.\nAm sending you copy of the white paper to you in pouch\nleaving here tonight. Text of the reply delivered to the Soviet\nEmbassy tonight follows:\nHis Excellency\n\"NATIONAL\nAND\nRECORDS\n:\nSERVICET\nAlexander S. Payushkin,\nAmbassador of the Union of Soviet\nSocialist Republics.\nThe Acting Secretary of State presentshis compliments\nto His Excellency, the Ambassador of the .Union of Soviet Socialist\nRepublics, and has the honor to transmit the following communication;\n1. The Governments of the United States, France and the\nUnited Kingdom, conscious of their obligations under the charter of\nthe United Nations to settle disputes by peaceful means, took the\ninitiative on July 30, 1948, in approaching the Soviet Government\nfor informal discussions in Moscow in order to explore every possibility\nof adjusting a dangerous situation which had arisen by reason of\nmeasures taken by the Soviet Government directly challenging the rights\nof the other occupying powers in Berlin. These measures, persistently\npursued, amounted to a blockade of land and water transport and com-\nmunication between the Western Zones of Germany and Berlin which not\nonly endangered the maintenance of the forces of occupation of"
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