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DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 11652. Sec. 3(E) and s(D)
DEPT. OF STATE LTR. 1-18-73
TO:
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL SPECIAL
By NLT NARS Date 2-15-73
NR : WHITE ONE ZERO SEVEN
DTG: 270010 Z
740 PM. EST. Spt.26.
State Department délivered to Soviet Ambassador here
6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time reply to the Soviet note received
yesterday. Lovett says this note and "white paper" prepared by
the Department covering the Moscow negotiations and including text
of the Soviet note yesterday, are being released to the press at
midnight.
Am sending you copy of the white paper to you in pouch
leaving here tonight. Text of the reply delivered to the Soviet
Embassy tonight follows:
His Excellency
Alexander S. Payushkin,
Ambassador of the Union of Soviet
the C.S. 1
GON
Socialist Republics.
The Acting Secretary of State presentshis compliments
to His Excellency, the Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, and has the honor to transmit the following communication:
1. The Governments of the United States, France and the
United Kingdom, conscious of their obligations under the charter of
the United Nations to settle disputes by peaceful means, took the
initiative on July 30, 1948, in approaching the Soviet Government
(or informal discussions in Moscow in order to explore every possibility
f
adjusting a dangerous situation which had arisen by reason of
lasures taken by the Soviet Government directly challenging the rights
the other occupying powers in Berlin. These measures,persistently
sued, amounted to a blockade of land and water transport and com-
ication between the Western Zones of Germany and Berlin which not
r
endangered the maintenance of the forces of occupation of
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