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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nINTRODUCTION: Coincident with the CFM reversion to open sessions, the Soviet radio\n(and to a lesser extent, its Satellites) returns to voluminous reports on the Conference\nproceedings, with primary attention given the speeches by Vishinsky. Since Report No. 4\nof this series, Radio Moscow and the Soviet-controlled German radios have also issued a\nnumber of commentaries on CFM-related subjects. Perhaps the most interesting statements\nare the several broadcast allusions to the possible Conference outcome--ranging from\nhopes of at least a limited agreement of some kind to charges that the Western Powers\nhave no intention of reaching an agreement or of compromising in any way. Otherwise,\nthe commentaries generally constitute a recapitulation of previously expressed Soviet\npositions on such issues as the Berlin question, the unanimity principle, and the Bonn\nConstitution. Two Soviet commentaries are concerned with the alleged failure of de-\nmilitarization in Western Germany, a subject that has been generally slighted throughout\nthe course of this Conference. References to the need for German unity continue to\nappear, but--except for one review of the German Peoples Congress' \"struggle for unity\nand a just peace\"--not in concentrated form. The claim that because of the economic\nslump the Western delegates are only interested in a limited trade agreement--as reported\nby Yuri Zhukov in PRAVDA a few days ago--is not pursued; but in other contexts, Moscow\nrepeats the statement about desirability of East-West trade and accuses the Western\nPowers of \"ousting\" Western German products from the markets of the world.\nLIMITED AGREEMENT: FUTURE CONTACTS: The most unusual statements regarding the\npossible outcome of the Conference are broadcast not by Soviet or Soviet-controlled\nradios but by the U.S.-licensed and British-licensed press services in Germany. Because\nthey are attributed to official Soviet sources, however, they appear to be worth re-\nporting here. The dispatch by the U.S.-licensed agency reports:\n\"Major General Tulpanov, Soviet Military Administration Information Chief, told\nrepresentatives of the Soviet-licensed press in Berlin yesterday that the Soviet\ndelegation expected the Foreign Ministers Conference to end without having\nachieved any positive results. According to German circles close to the Soviet\nMilitary Administration, Tulpanov also announced that the Soviet delegation would\nnow try to obtain a short-term trade agreement to restore the free exchange of\ngoods between Eastern and Western Germany and between Eastern and Western Berlin.\"\n(9 June)\nAccording to the dispatch by the British-licensed agency:\n\"It is said that members of the Soviet delegation who had already returned to\nKarlshorst stated that the end of the Paris Foreign Ministers Conference did\nnot mean the end of the recently resumed contact between the Four Big Powers.\nThe end of the Paris Conference would mean the beginning of a series of con-\nferences from which Moscow would still expect success. (8 June)\nAnd Schnitzler, Soviet-controlled German commentator, says that although German demands\n\"go further than Vishinsky's proposals\"* the Germans \"wholeheartedly welcome even the\nmost modest agreements.\"\n* The most outright Soviet-controlled German statement to this effect that has been\nmonitored to date.\nDECLASSIFIED\nRESTRICTE\nAuthority E.O. 10501"
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