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DECLASSIFIED
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or (E)
Dept. of State letter, Aug 2-15-1773
By NLT- He , NARS Date 12-1-75
TOT SECRET
-3 -NIACT 867, May 10, 1 a.m., from Moscow.
The Government of the USA explains the present unsatis-
factory state of Soviet-American relations also by the
position of the Soviet Government on the question of the
so-called European Recovery Program.
At the same time it is absolutely clear that if the ques. -
tion or the economic recovery of the European countries
had been set up, not as has been done in the indicated
program, but on the basis of normal conditions of inter-
national economic cooperation within the framework of the
United Nations organization and with the necessary regard
of the national rights and sovereignty of states, there
would be no reason for USSR's negative attitude toward
the ERP, all the more since the USSR, as one of the states
which suffered most, economically, in the war, is fully
interested in the development of postwar international
economic cooperation.
At the same time the Soviet Government thinks it necessary
to state that the present unsatisfactory condition of
Soviet-American relations and the tense state of the inter-
national situation are the result of the recent policy of
the Government of the USA.
The creation of such a tense situation has been fostered
in the first place by such steps of the Government of the
USA, as the increasing development of a network of naval
and air bases in all parts of the world, including ter-
ritories adjacent to the USSR, about which the press and
a series of official representatives of the USA frankly
declare that the establishment of these bases has the aim
of the encirclement of the USSR. Such measures cannot be
explained by the interests of self defense. It is like- -
wise impossible to overlook the fact that the present
atmosphere of international relations is poisoned by war-
like threats of all kinds directed against the USSR,
issuing from certain circles closely connected with the
Government of the USA. In contrast to this, the Soviet
Government is conducting a consistently peaceful policy
with respect to the USA and other states, is not establish-
ing military bases in other countries and is not emitting
any kind of threat toward anyone at all.
Further, there was recently formed a military union of
western countries, including England, France, Belgium,
Holland and Lukembourg. At a time when all the treaties
of mutual
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