Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 DEPARTMENT OF STATE State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY By NLT- we NARS, Date 11-13-80 WASHINGTON May 27, 1949 SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS FOREIGN MINISTERS The Secretary states that yesterday's meeting of the Foreign Ministers brought out additional efforts by Vyshinski to appeal to German opinion by a flattering description of conditions in the eastern zone. However, Vyshinski's central theme is still the reestablishment of the Allied Control Council operating on the unanimity principle. He pointedly evaded the Secretary's efforts to bring him to a discussion of reparations and Soviet controlled property; the Secretary says that if Vyshinski continues today to evade discussion of reparations in today's meeting he will be convinced that the Soviets have no substantial concessions to make and fear to alienate German opinion. GREECE The Greek Embassy has presented us a note stating that although our communique on the talks with Gromyko is in accord with Greek views, the Greek government is concerned that it was not kept informed of the talks and that it is imperative to avoid any discussion of the Greek problem at present. The Greeks believe that only after the German problem is on the way to a solution could the Greek problem be usefully discussed. The Greek government has agreed to avoid any deviation from the line now being followed and to make every effort to ensure that discussion of the Greek situation is postponed until military operations are successfully concluded. The government has further decided that it can only decide on such`measures as an amnesty, after the guerrillas have laid down their arms. Australian Foreign Minister Evatt has proposed to the four Foreign Ministers in Paris that a new approach to the Greek case be made by a mediating authority supported by the four powers. It is reported that Vyshinski, in receiving Evatt's proposal, remarked that he thought the proposals merited further development. The Secretary's reply to Evatt stated that the US is thoroughly in sympathy with effort: S to achieve a settlement in Greece and that he will lend all appropriate support to such efforts through the UN. Our representative on the UN Commission for the Balkans, in commenting on our views on the Gromyko proposals, states that continued Greek insistence on unconditional surrender is likely to weary both Greek and American public opinion and points out that any agreement by the guerrillas to lay down arms will require certain conditions, which he believes might well be supervised on an international basis. He also m feels