Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

the OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 November 2, 1950 By DEB NTT, Date 6-10-85 SECRET SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS BURMA The Permanent Secretary of the Burmese Foreign Office has informed our Ambassador in Rangoon that the Government of Burma is deeply concerned about the developments in Tibet and that instructions have been sent to the Burmese Ambassador in Peiping to express to the Chinese Communist authorities Burma's concern over this situa- - tion and its regret that an issue of this kind, which is susceptible to peaceful solution, is being treated in an aggressive manner by the Chinese Government. GERMANY One of Chancellor Adenauer's chief aides has communicated to High Commissioner McCloy Adenauer's personal concern over the general attitude of Schu- - macher, leader of the opposition Social Democrat Party, on the question of rearmament and particularly over his recent conference with Pastor Niemoeller on this subject. Adenauer is fearful that the forthcoming foreign policy debate will degenerate into dema- - gogic polemics and that he may be able to forestall self-dissolution of the Bundestag only with a slim majority of the present coalition. He points out a new election on the rearmament issue will be deplor- - able from the point of view of Germany and the western powers and requests any help that McCloy can give him to forestall a campaign for new elections by the opposition. Among the possible steps which Adenauer's aide suggested might be taken to this end were: 1) that we issue a statement that any German contingents in the European defense forces must in principle be on equal footing with other participants; and 2) that we give immediate publicity to the arrival of American troops as part of the reinforcement of West Germany. KOREA On the basis of unconfirmed information obtained from Chinese prisoners in Korea, the Eighth Army intelligence section believes that there are now two, and possibly three, Chinese regiments in the Eighth Army sector in North Korea.