Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLT (Miual A.del325 the OFFICE OF DECLASSIFIED THE SECRETARY OF STATE E/O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 WASHINGTON State Dept. Guidelines, NLT, Date March 9-9-85 6, 1982 By DEB February 11, 1952 TOP SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS FRANCE Foreign Minister Schuman has sent a reply to the Secretary's personal letter of February 4 concerning the recent tensions between France and Germany. Schuman expresses his belief that Chancellor Adenauer is sincerely attached to the European policy which he is defending against a more and more vehement opposition at home, and Schuman reiterates his own hope of reaching results acceptable to everyone before the Lisbon conference. However, Schuman points out that Germany is seeking to be paid the highest possible price for the military assistance we are asking of her, and he feels that it would be neither just nor prudent to yield to German pressures. Schuman says that to yield under German pressure would not be to save our European policy but to compromise it once and for all because: 1) the French Parliament would refuse to follow us; 2) it would abandon to Germany the direction of that policy; and 3) it would dangerously increase tension in Europe without any advantage for our common defense. Schuman urges in conclusion that we should continue to remain firm against German threats which, he believes, will fade before our reasonable but resolute stand. EGYPT Mr. Eden has sent instructions to British Ambassador Stevenson in Cairo to arrange for an early meeting with the Egyptian Prime Minister to discuss the resumption of negotiations be - tween their two governments. According to these new instructions Stevenson would seek agreement to begin these negotiations in Cairo on an Anglo-Egyptian - basis between himself and the Egyptian Prime Minister, to issue a joint communique or statement by the two governments outlining in general the aims of the discussions, and to base the discussions on an agenda which the British have prepared. The communique, as proposed by the British Foreign Office, would state that the two governments have agreed to resume dis - cussions with a view to reaching a defense settlement; that the British Government has agreed, on Egypt's assurance it will take steps to return normal conditions to the Canal Zone area, to start a withdrawal of forces TOP SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION