OBSERVATION ON THE SOVIET PEACE PROPOSALS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 27, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The Soviet note to the -estern allies proposing the conclusion of a peace
treaty with Ge. ,y is another link in the chain of Fur-ian efforts to core to
a s :tisfactory and final agreement on the Gerran problem, After the failure
of a similar attempt a year ago,, which was a direct result of the breakdown in
Paris of the Deputy Foreign t inisters a Conference, the Kremlin changed its
tactical approach by ordering Premier Otto Grotewohl to invite the Bonn govern
rent to send delegates to an " All-Germans' assembly which would consider the
convocation of a peace treaty conference, This offer arreared to be fruitless.
The initiative of the Soviet Zone governrent(DDR) was thwarted completely
when it del declined to grant visas to the United Nations eom r-ission charged with
the preliminery survey of opportunities f'or free and unfettered elections in
the Soviet Zone. Despite their rejection of the comr'ission, Otto Grotewohi
and Walter U' bricht reiterated their appe~.l for "All-German" elections in
early January 1952.
2. Within e few sweets the DDR cabinet made a dramatic vclte face. At & press
conference in February, Grotewohl and Georg Dertinger offered the friendship of
Eastern Germany and, by implication, the Soviet bloc, to France, if the French
government would be willing to prevent a resurgence of German militarism,
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Foreign 1 icister Schuman accused the Bonn government of harboring, annexationist
tendencies because of its attitude towOrds the Oder-Neisse line. _ 50X1-HUM
This brief nary of Soviet tactics during the past year suffices to im.-
prep?s the following two facts on the political observer.
a. The Soviet note addressed to the three western powers is predominantly
a tactical move inspired liy the realization that methods applied to
date have failed.
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