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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Records of the Naval Aide to the President (Truman Administration)
State Department Briefs Files
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Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
Smith, Walter Bedell, 1895-1961
Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, 1890-
Clay, Lucius D. (Lucius DuBignon), 1897-1978
Murphy, Robert D. (Robert Daniel), 1894-1978
Berlin Blockade, 1948-1949
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
the
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON
September 20, 1948
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
GERMANY
The three western representatives in Moscow have
concluded that the Soviet reply to our recent
aide memoire contains no basis for any hope that the USSR is
willing to seek a satisfactory agreement with the west over
Berlin. While the Soviet reply itself and Molotov's attitude
during the Saturday meeting were not unreasonable, no satis-
faction was given on the three points at issue and in one respect
deny an agreement previously made by Stalin. Smith concludes
that the USSR is now thinking in tactical terms rather than of
genuine agreement and desires to prolong discussions and to
shift to the western powers, under the most unfavorable possible
circumstances, responsibility for breaking off negotiations.
The three western representatives in Moscow together
with General Clay and Ambassador Murphy in Berlin have been
instructed to go to Paris for further consultations on the
whole Berlin question.
DECLASSIFIED
E.0. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
By NLT- NC
HARS, Date 11-13-to