https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/72b373d0d54dd6ed172b86b0d8b275f9.pdf dadd061b66566a388d7f8bdbeaf84c64 PDF Text Text cume close under the Accbs ta lnTormbtion Act Document divulgue en vertu de lo Loi sur /'acces a /'information s.13(1 )(a) FROM: TO: l I _ j .. l , Reference ................................................. Subject: •••• .C • 6V1 ·t. ·.tO:titf •.•.••.••.•••••••••••••••···••·•·•·• i:t . . . ··ES:t,.'!i ny · ..................................... •• , t co ci r. 1st h v 1 t acoeoted re ible ct1 o k t V Z 1 n 1 0 t tbat r tions • No. of Enclosures Politic lthougb r le t t 1 or m the t r-y l m t s Zon ttaok. t or or incor o te 1r st t from o inclined u fool• h . ib111ty igh be pr to doubt ncr rli lie t r - tt rn. 1n the Stat s 1n ba b r to you ould behave m111tary rJ.1'• 1n ti n . lan tion ovi t G rm ny. ch th n d way if t d in r 1sely this ttaok on s pr tation 1s Copies CTe £erred To .............. . 4 , THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, CANADA r wb th ector d r 1 1n I r. ir. He ... id Post File No............... . been tern int e ix ontbs' ,... ,u ......... 1 11ne on to harp on cln nt ti 1 to b of ublic. r b1ft le d with the forgi v e:na r. ••• 2 000648 �se Document divulgue en vertu de la Lai sur /'acces a SECRET s.13(1 )(a) -2- orris said 3. Turning to the situation r. in Berlin, orris sa.-t d be In reply to a question about what vr. Conant, tl e new United States High Commissioner in Bonn, had m6 ant when be said on the 18th of this month, during a visit to Berlin, r. orris was However, there was nothing the United states could do to check Soviet interference with this traffic and they did not intend to try. But for.the record and as a matter of prlnciple, they would continue to insist that all the citlzens of Berlin had the right to move freely throughout the city. 4. Mr. orris As you are aware, no Soviet ~eply has ever been received to the last note on this subject, which was sent to ii/oscow on the 23rd September, 1952. Since then Soviet tactics, according to r. orris. looking to ards discussions between the two German governments over reunification. In the present situation, with plans for ratification of the FDC Treaty and the Ger an Contractual Agreements bogged down, the Soviets, he thought, might well decide to move this campaign back to the level of Four-Po er exchanges. If they did so# and held out an even more attractive offer than tl. ey made last spring, the effect on opinion in· stern Ge~ any might be very serious,. On the other band, Mr. orris was personally inclined to believe that, even if they re-opened the ca paign hich they had dropped at the end of last summer# any new offer they might make would probably be less forthcoming, since they might well argue that hope in Western Germany of obtaining a proper place in a unified ester-n Europe bad so d:vindled recently that even a more modest offer ,from the Soviet Union for German reunification would be a pealing. This oersonal view might be too sanguine. In any case, the State Department ias keeping on the lookout for a new Soviet proposal on German reunification. fo:r 8 s dor 000649 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CDBC00345 Title A name given to the resource "Soviet Policy towards Germany," WashDC to SSEA, despatch no. 389 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 21-Feb-53 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "BERLIN. Political Situation. Relations between West and East Berlin," RG25-A-3-c, Volume 8506, File number: 10937-40, File part: 2.2, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource LAC ATIP A-2024-01457 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Canadian Crown Subject The topic of the resource Berlin Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canada Declassified Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English