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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nVan der Beugel/Kissinger\n9:47 a. m.\n2/9/71\nV: I have nothing very important to report from our part of the world. I was\nvery uneasy about the German a month ago because he had too much prestige\nin this thing but now he is in the good camp but he has invested so much\nprestige in la this thing that he has polarized the domestic political life in\nGermany and put himself into the hands of the other party. But I am a little\neasier. The gambleis whether he has success in telling his people that he\nhas done what he can and it's failed or that he has done what he has for CXIXSXSK\nsuccess.\nK: He makes one unfavorable treaty and then make another unfavorable treaty\nto radify the first.\nV: I am less uneasy about it then 2-3 weeks ago. He is weak but loyal. The\nBritish are in a mess but they have a tough Prime Minister.\nK: He is surprisingly tough.\nV: It' doesn't surprise me at all.\nK: It surprises me.\nV:\nI\nthink inspite of all ? ? ? ? ? it should be support to get them in. One\nworry and your people could give attention is that the monetary thing is out\nof the news and the newspapers but I think the whole monetary situation will be\ndifficult with regard to US/? Euroep.\nK: In what way?\nV: It's absolutely clear and the boss is right to give the total priority to\nthe domestic scene but it means the balance of payments deficit and the world\nmust hold dollars up with us in an increasingly difficult way. Whether they\nwill create dangerious tensions in '71, I take into account.\nK: The French are behaving notably on Laos.\nV: And their drive in Europe is to do something nasty against the dollar. You\nshould be tough in this respect and tell them they can choose between the dollar\nand something else. It's SO out of the limelight and it's one of the main problems\nof 1971.\nK: Right. We are getting Peterson here for the international economic policy\nand that will help us."
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