Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

f. MITINAUAl (Aide)345 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON State By DEB NLT, Date 9-10-85 Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 September 16, 1952 TOP SECRET SEGURITY INFORMATION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS THE SAAR Chancellor Adenauer disclosed to Ambassador Donnelly yesterday some of the details of the Adenauer-Schuman talks of last week on the Saar. Adenauer said he had reached an agreement in a "frank and friendly" private talk with Schuman on the appointment of two French and two German economic experts to examine the possibilities of an economic settlement of the Saar problem. Any solution proposed, said Adenauer, would have to recognize two primary French economic objectives in the Saar: French payment for Saar coal and Saar payment for French imports in French francs. Adenauer claimed that the Saar population is tending increasingly to favor a return to Germany, but he said he supported a "Euro- pean" solution for the sake of a united Europe. Adenauer said that the Germans would accept a Europeanization of the Saar far more easily if the French could bring themselves to cede at least a minute token strip of their own territory to the new European area. (He suggested sawing off a small tongue of French territory which extends into the Saar.) Both Schuman and Adenauer agreed to exert their influence on political parties at home and in the Saar to induce them to accept the idea of Europeanization, Adenauer emphasized that all these plans de- pended on the approval of the Saar population as expressed by a new, freely-elected Landtag. He said that both he and Schuman opposed a referendum in view of the danger of stirring up old resentments again. Much depended, he said, on the attitude of the leaders of the three pro-German Saar parties whom he is scheduled to receive tomorrow. SOUTHEAST The Department yesterday handed notes to repre- ASIA sentatives of the UK, France, Australia and New Zealand informing them that the US proposes to hold military conversations on the defense of Southeast Asia in Washington beginning October 6th. The meeting would be referred to as the "Five Power Military Conference on Southeast Asia"; the talks would cover, from a military point of view, "all military courses of action which in the light of Allied capabilities would be mili- tarily possible and necessary in order to cause the Chinese Communists to cease their aggression against Southeast Asia." TOP SECRET SECURITY INFORMA TION