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POLISH POLICY AND NATO MINISTERIAL MEETING
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND THIS MORNING POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER
CALLED IN HEADS OF USA FRENCH UK SWEDISH AND AUSTRIAN MISSIONS
AND ASKED THAT A STATEMENT OF VIEWS,THE MAINPOINTS OF WHICH FOLLOW,
BE CONVEYED TO THIER RESPECTIVE GOVTS,
2.P0LISH GOVT UNDERSTOOD NATO WAS ABOUT TO DISCUSS A BUILD UP OF
MODERN ARMAMENTS IN EUROPE EXTENDING EVEN TO EQUIPMENT OF GFR
FORCES WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS,THEY REGRETTED PRESENT DISARMAMENT
DEADLOCK BUT THOUGHT ALL POSSIBILITY NOT YET EXHAUSTED,THEREFORE
IT WAS ESSENTIAL THAT NO STEPS BE TAKEN AT THIS TIME WHICH WOULD
MAKE EVENTUAL AGREEMENT MORE DIFFICULT AND WHICH WOULD LEAD
TO INCREASED TENSION,MAKING A WIDER DISSEMINATION OF ATOMIC ARMAMENTS WOULD INCREASE RISK OF LOCAL CONFLICT LEADING TO GLOBAL WAR.
3.INTR0DUCTI0N OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS ON GERMAN SOIL WOULD BRING NEW
ELEMENT INTO GERMAN SITUATION THE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE OF WHICH
WOULD BE NEED FOR COUNTRIES WHICH FELT THREATENED TO TAKE MEASURES
TO STRENGTHEN THEIR SECURITY,TENSION IN CENTRAL EUROPE WOULD
INCREASE AND FURTHER CRYSTALI2E THE DIVISION OF AT LEAST TWO
POWERFUL CAMPS.POLAND WISHED TO AVOID THIS DEVELOPMENT.THEY VIEWED
AIM OF THEIR FOREIGN POLICY AS CONTRIBUTING TO REDUCTION OF INTERNATIONAL TENSION WITHIN THEIR MEANS AS EXEMPLIFIED BY THEIR PROPOSALS
(GROUP CORRUPT)LIMITED TO ARMAMENTS IN CENTRAL EUROPE WHICH WOULD
BE SERIOUSLY PREJUDICED IF ATOMIC WEAPONS WERE ALLOCATED TO NATO
FORCES IN GERMANY OR TO GERMAN FORCES.
k.ALTHOUGH AWARE OF WESTERN INTENTIONS TO CONTROL USE OF SUCH
WEAPONS THEIR POSSESION WOULD STRENGTHEN POSITION OF GERMANY IN
NATO AND THUS MAKE THAT ORGANIZATION MORE DANGEROUS IN POLISH EYES.
THERE WERE DANGEROUS REVISIONIST CIRCLES IN GFR WHOSE STRENGTH
WAS DRAWN IN PART FROM LACK OF WESTERN RECOGNITION OF WESTERN
POLISH FRONTIER.FURTHER THE REMILITARIZATION OF GFR WOULD CONSTITUTE
AN OBSTACLE TO POLISH DESIRE TO SETTLE RELATIONS WITH WHOLE REPEAT
WHOLE OF GERMANY ON BASIS OF MUTUAL SECURITY AND COOPERATION,
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5 C T0 EACH COUNTRY IN ADDITION WAS EXPRESSED SATISFACTION WITH
DEVELOPMENT OF MUTUAL RELATIONS OVER THE PAST YEAR,
60TKE STATEMENT WAS DELIVERED ORRALLY AND IT WAS INDICATED NO
REPEAT NO PUBLICITY WOULD BE GIVEN TO ITS CONTENTS,
?,THE SWEDES AND WE ASSUME THE AUSTRIANS WERE ASKED TO GIVE WHAT
HELP THEY COULD IN IMPRESSING SINCERITY OF POLISH VIEWS ON WESTERN
GOVTS,
8t.WE CONCLUDE ALTHOUGH TUNE SOVIET POLICY THIS DEMARCHE
REPRESENTS POLISH NATIONAL INTERESTS WHICH ARE REDUCTION OF TENSION
AND I UNDERSTAND POSSIBLE NUMBER OF SOVIET TROOPS AND INSTALLATIONS ON POLISH SOIL,

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