Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

the OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE DECLASSIFIED WASHINGTON E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 April 10, 1952 By DED NLT, Date 9-9-85 SECRET SECURITY INEORMATION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS GERMAN TREATY The Soviets delivered another note yesterday evening concerning a German Peace Treaty. The new note reiterates the Soviet desire to work out a German peace treaty without delay and suggests the creation of an all-German Govern- ment to participate immediately in the peace treaty discussions. It turns down the idea of a United Nations Commission for investigating the possibilities of free all-German elections as being "'in contradiction with the UN charter which in accordance with Article 107 excludes inter - ference in German affairs," and says that such a check can be carried out by a commission of the four occupation powers. The new note also reiterates the Soviet theme that Germany must obligate itself not to join any kind of coalition or military alliances directed against any power which has taken part with armed forces in the war against Germany. It says, on the other hand, that Germany must be permitted to have its own national armed forces (land, air, and sea) and that it is impossible to imagine a position whereby Japan would have a right to its national armed forces designed for the defense of the country, but Germany would be deprived of this right and placed in a worse position. The note repeats the earlier Soviet state- ment that the USSR considers the Potsdam frontiers of Germany as definitive. Finally, the note proposes anew that the four powers enter into discussion of a peace treaty with Germany and also the question of the unification of Germany and creation of an all-German Government; it concludes that 'just now the question is being decided whether Germany will be reestablished as a united, independent, peace- loving state entering into the family of peace-loving peoples of Europe, or whether the division of Germany and the related threat of war in Europe will remain.' USSR Embassy Prague reports that the Swedish chiefs of mission from Vienna, Bonn, and Prague held an informal meeting in Prague on Tuesday with the Secretary General of the Swedish Foreign Office to discuss various aspects of German and Eastern European problems. Our Embassy offers the following Swedish views, as being of interest to the Department: 1) the Soviet offer of SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION