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    "ocrText": "for 880mg\n- 3 que\nThe Western Powers also reached agreements con-\ncerning the effect of unification on specific political\nparties. They agreed on the following:\n(a) The Social Democratic Party must be\nallowed to operate ?reely in the Soviet Zone.\n(b) The responsible leadership of the\nChristian Democratic and Liberal Democratic\nParties in the Soviet Zone should be restored\nthrough a free vote of all party members.\n(c) The same principle of responsible\nleadership should be introduced into the two\nnew parties in the Soviet Zone - the National\nDemocratic Party and the Farmers Party.\n(d) Whether the Social Unity Party should\nbe permitted to operate in Western Germany\nshould be governed by the provisions of the\nBasic Law. Article 21 provides that parties\nwhose internal organization conforms to democratic\nprinciples can be formed; therefore, the Western\nPowers would expect that the matter of Social\nUnity Party participation would be resolved by\nthe Germans themselves acting under this pro-\nvision of their constitution.\n(e) Over-all bloc organizations imposed\nupon the parties in the Soviet Zone and pseudo-\npolitical associations dominated by one party are\nnot \"democratic political parties\" within the\nWestern Powers definition of the term.\nI\n(3) Freedom of Elections. The Western Powers\nagreed in CFM/P/49/5 that \"freedom of elections\" should\nbe another of the political conditions for German unity.\nIn preliminary tripartite discussions, the Western\nrepresentatives had agreed on the following conditions\nfor conduct of elections:\n(a) Elections should be conducted through\nuniversal, equal, and direct suffrage, and by secret\nballot.\n1. Ibid.\nHARRY S. TRULEAN LIBRARK\nFOP SECRET"
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