Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON Dept. E.O. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 12065, State By DEB NLT, Date 9-4-85 February 26, 1951 SECRET SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS UNITED KINGDOM The Foreign Office has given Embassy London an outline of tentative British think- - ing on the items which may arise in a four-power meeting. It indicated that the substance has not yet been fully cleared, and it promised to give us further information as soon as the British positions have become firmer. (The outline is attached.) USSR Embassy Moscow is not enthusiastic over the British proposal whereby the NATO countries would send a formal communication to the USSR rebutting the recent charges that Western rearmament is a cause for tension in Europe, beseeching the USSR to accept a four-power conference on the basis of the US-UK-French - proposals, and pressing the USSR to modify its policy in order to allay the deep anxieties caused by Soviet conduct since World War II. Embassy Moscow says that the British proposal overlooks the point that the Soviets' request for a CFM meeting did in fact furnish the basis for major UK-US-French initiative to expose once again to the free world the Soviets' responsibility for present world tensions. It feels that if we press or urge the Soviets at this time to accept a CFM meeting it might place us and our NATO associates in the position of sup- pliants and rob us in part of the benefits already gained from the initiative which the three Western allies have taken in the past few months. It con- cludes that the fact the Soviets are now presumably considering a reply to the three-power notes of February 19th points up the fore-going thought. YUGOSLAVIA In commenting on recent rumors to the effect that there were Russian troop move- - ments toward the Yugoslav frontier in Rumania and that an attack on Yugo- - slavia might be expected next month, Embassy Belgrade believes that the rumors lack foundation. Ambassador Allen feels that open aggression against Yugoslavia is unlikely in the near future because of the political reaction against the Cominform which such an attack would cause through- out the world. SECRET