WEEKLY CHRONOLOGY OF REPORTS CONCERNING THE BERLIN SITUATION RECEIVED DURING WEEK OF 5 DEC - 11 DEC

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WEEKLY CHRONOLOGY OF REPORTS CONCERNING THE BERLIN SITUATION
RECEIVED DURING WEEK OF 5 DEC - 11 DEC
19 Nov A new double track electrified S-Bahr line was placed
in operation from Oranienburg to East Berlin-Pankow
via Birkenwerder, Hohen Neuendorf and Blankenburg,
with trains operating at maximum speeds of 80 kilo-
meters per hour. According to the East German press,
service will be extended to East Berlin-WarsChauer-
strasse via Schoenhauser Allee in mid-December, when
a bridge on Maximillianstrasse and track work in
Pankow and on Schoenhauserstrasse has been completed.
(CONF)
19 Nov - In talks with Norwegian Foreign Minister Lange,
2 Dec Khrushchev said that West Berlin should be a free
city guaranteed on an international basis and without
any connection with the German Federal Republic.
Users of access routes crossing East German territory
would have to "respect" the GDR. He emphasized
very strongly that the prestige of the USSR was in-
volved in Berlin and that the West would have to take
account of it. UN headquarters could be relocated
in the city. He said that West Berlin's status
could be guaranteed either by UN forces or else the
USSR would have the right to station "symbolic" forces
alongside of and on the same basis as those of the
Western powers. Although the USSR might not neces-
sarily exercise this right, he said that the West
ought to prefer to have a Soviet military commandant "
in West Berlin in order to deal "authoritatively
with the GDR. He added that when a peace treaty was
signed, the basis for the Western presence in and
access to West Berlin would disappear and the Western
powers would have to leave the city. If the West
continued to pose demands--meaning non-recognition
of the treaty and failure to take account ofThoSoviet
prestige--access would have to be blocked.
agreement on the status of West Berlin would be a
protocal appanded to the peace treaty. (SECRET S/S)
NOTE: The Weekly Chronology published and distributed
on 4 December should have been dated Reports
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Khrushchev referred to Berlin
as a "testicles of imperialist," adding that
"when imperialism becomes wayward and proves dif-
ficult, we squeeze the testicles and put a little
sense into the imperialists. If the imperialists
grow totally impossible to live with, we'll give
a big pull and teach them a lesson of a lifetime".
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h delivered at an annual banquet:: for the
In a speec
press, his first public comment since the Kennedy-
Adenauer meeting in Washington, West Berlin Mayor
Brandt expressed satisfaction that Western rights
were not subject to negotiation and emphatically
rejected any idea of a four-power status for West
Berlin only. Brandt reiterated his belief that a
t Berlin solution is impossible "in isola-
permanen
tion." He said that the West Berlin administration
is hopeful that negotiations will result in a new
situation with considerable stability and permanence
and that many of the city's economic and cultural
plans depend on a reasonable agreement affecting
fundamental aspects of the Berlin question. Brandt
welcomed the President's Izvestia statement that US
troops would remain in Wes er in as long as the
Berliners want them and said that the President's
remark had the effect of reassuring Berliners on
both sides of the wall that the West is not about
to capitulate. Brandt emphasized that the Senat
would use all its influence to prevent a deteriora-
tion in the city's present status, particularly with
respect to West Berlin's ties with the Federal Re-
public and the continued presence of Federal agencies
in West Berlin. He openly criticized the Bundestag
for its failure to meet in West Berlin in recent
years. (cONF)
The US element at Marienfelde processed 30 re-
fugees--of whom 21 claimed to have fled after 13
August. (CONF)
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30 Nov According to reports received by USAREUR from a non-
Con't USAREUR agency, three troop shuttle trains were
sighted in northern East Germany in late October
and early November. USAREUR commented that, although
there have been some such reports since mid-July, a
recent increase in reported sightings of troop shuttle
trains indicates the possible start of the GSFG troop
rotation program. (SECRET/NOFORN)
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1 Dec The US element at Marienfelde processed 871 East
Berlin and East German refugees during November--a
drop of 40 percent from October. Of the 871, 646
fled to West Berlin after 13 August--a drop of 25
percent from October. (CONF)
The US Embassy in Bonn reported that PANAM will-,--re-
duce its current schedule of 27 round trips per day
to Berlin to 24 effective 7 January 196. (SECRET)
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2 Dec The Soviet Foreign Ministry replied to the US note
of 16 November on the Berlin air corridors, rejecting
the US arguments as "groundless" and reaffirming its
notes of 2 September and 18 October 1961. (CONF)
A special congress of the West Berlin SPD termed
"unbearable and unacceptable" further concessions on
Berlin's status which "must not be altered unilater-
ally and to the disadvantage of the West." A un-
animously-approved resolution said that "an es-
sential of German policy must be the removal of the
wall of shame," that Berlin should not be discussed
"on an international plane as an isolated problem"
and that it "must remain a part of free Germany."
The congress called for a 52-nation peace conference
"in order to win the initiative in the German problem
for the West." (CONF)
The US, UK and French civil air attaches in Bonn
approved an oral British reply to the Soviet con-
troller in BASC, admitting that as a result of a
navigational error a flight from the former British
Zone accidentally violated the Soviet Zone at 1712
GMT on 29 November. (SECRET)
Neues Deutschland argued that the 1 December re-
organization o he US Berlin Garrison and its
direct subordination to USAREUR Heidelberg was
an. admission on the part of the US that the Four-
Power status of Berlin no longer is valid and that
US forces in the city are tied openly to NATO and
into the Central Army Group commanded by "Nazi
General" Speidel. Both Neues Deutschland and Ber.
liner Zeitung cited TASS s 1 December Bonin repoor
on the potentially dangerous consequences of con-
tinued US troop movements on the Berlin-Helmstedt
Autobahn. (CONF)
Neues Deutschland published the text of GDR Foreign
Minister Otto Winzer's speech to the 14th plenum of
the SED central committee, defending as "an absolute
necess".ty" the "policy of negotiations as explained
by Comrade Walter Ulbricht to the plenum regardless
of deadlines set earlier." (CONF)
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2 Dec At 1300 hours USCOB protested by phone to the Soviet
Commandant the surveillance of two US military patrols
in East Berlin the preceding day. (CONF)
In his Miner's Day speech at Katowice, Gomulka warned
that if negotiations failed the Western powers would
have to deal with the GDR. He thus makes public a
position taken earlier by Khrushchev and Gromyko. His
phrase: "A free city, which means primarily that it
can have no state institutions either representing
the GFR or GDR" appears to be a new line. His re-
ferences to President Kennedy's interview with Adzhubei
were generally favorable; his satisfaction with,Kennedy's
references to negotiations on Berlin as a first phase
is similar to Ulbricht's comment. (CONF)
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3 Dec The editor of West Berlin's Telegraf, Arno Scholz,
proposed an 85-mile "super hig way" bridge linking
West Berlin and the Federal Republic. Scholz, who`
argued that "if the Soviets are prepared to safe-
guard free access to Berlin, then such a proposal
could well be the starting point for testing whether
they are willing to find a solution... which will rule
out constant new incidents," suggested that "a super
highway on pillars" run from Berlin by way of Rathenow
and Gardelegen to Oebisfelde on the zonal border,
roughly paralleling the Helmstedt Autobahn. (CONF)
At 1215 hours a Soviet jet fighter approached . head-
on, circled for several minutes and then veered sharply
to the right 300-400 feet in front of a USAF C-47
outbound in the south corridor 66 miles from Tempelhof.
An oral protest was made to the Soviet controller at
BASC. (SECRET)
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4 Dec Her Majesty's Government in London published a
250,000-word 483-page study of the Berlin problem
in advance of the Western Foreign Ministers' meeting
in Paris. (CONE) ,
Krapf, chief of the Eastern Dep't of Bonh's Foreign
Ministry, told the DCM of the US Embassy that the
Federal Government is disappointed over the lack of
planning for economic countermeasures, stressing
particularly that there can be little hope of se-
curing NATO agreement along the lines proposed for
the four Foreign Ministers in August '61 while the
British are "so negative." Krapf commented that
current NATO planning for economic countermeasures
will hardly deter the Soviets from a Berlin blockade.
He intimated that the Bonn government might raise the
subject at the western Foreign Ministers' meeting in
Paris, at least quadripartitely, with a view to per-
suading the British to be "more forthcoming." (SECRET
s/5)
ADN denounced Arno Scholz's proposal for a "super
highway on pillars" between West Berlinand the
Federal Republic as "an opportunity to provide for
conveying cars of agents and other sinister elements
who have reason to fear the GDR control organs from
West Berlin by air to West Germany. The idea...
would constitute another misuse of the GDR air cor-
ridor t7 comes from the discredited agents' and
spies' /1 organizations in the frontline city." (OONF)
VOPOS again tailed and harassed US patrols in East
Berlin. In one instance, the patrol was boxed in
and compelled to proceed in the opposite direction.
In a second, a VOPO pounded with his fists on the
patrol vehicle as it entered East Berlin via Fried-
richstrasse and later another VOPO kicked in one of
the headlights as the patrol left. In retaliation,
four Soviet vehicles occupied by uniformed personnel
were detained for varying periods in the US Sector
of West Berlin. At 1835 as the fourth Soviet vehicle
was being released, Karlshorst telephoned General
Watson, citing the "unexplained" detentions and
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4 Dec warning of countermeasures if the vehicle then under
Con' t detention was not released immediately. The message
demanded that Watson account for US actions in the
light of his and Colonel Solovyev's agreement that
there would be no detentions. Watson attempted to
reply immediately with a message labeling Solovyev's
complaint incomprehensible in light of the harassment
of USCOB patrols on 3 and 4 December and protesting
such harassment. The US interpretor reached Karlshorst
by phone, but the Soviet duty officer professed his
inability to hear and requested that the message be
delivered in writing. It was delivered at 2215 hours.
(CONF)
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5 Dec West Berlin police reported that 13 East Berliners
and East Germans, including 4 border guards, had
fled to the West during the preceding twenty four
hours. (CONF)
An East German railroad engineer and his fireman
redballed an Oranienburg commuter train with 25
friends and relatives aboard through the Albrechshof
station, across the zonal border with West Berlin
and into Spandau in the British Sector. (CONF)
Hamburg DPA,announced that Soviet Ambassador Smirnov
had requested a meeting that day with Chancellor
Adenauer. (CONF)
The US controller at BASC delivered a written protest
to the Soviet controller over the buzzing of an out-
bound USAF C-47 in the south corridor on 3 December
by a Soviet jet fighter. (SECRET)
The US Embassy in Bonn reported that one of its staff
members who had recently traveled the Autobahn noticed
new construction along the edge of the westbound lane
near Helmstedt. The Embassy had learned that east-
bound traffic was being diverted into this lane with
two-way traffic adjacent to the site of the construction.
The East Germans have erected several poles with street-
lights and a small shack approximately five kilometers
from Helmstedt near an access road leading to the Auto-
bahn. (SECRET)
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6 Dec The GDR Ministry of Interior dismissed US protests
to Karlshorst over the harassment of USCOB patrols
in East Berlin with the comment that the use of car
radios is forbidden in East Berlin and it is "ex-
pected that this non-adherence to the regulations
will be avoided in the future." (CONF)
ADN announced the "recent" defection to East Germany
of four members of the West German Bundeswehr. (CONF)
In a CBS television interview taped for broadcast on
4 January 1962, Ulbricht said that conditions for
entry into East Berlin "soon" would be "normalized"
with passports and visas required to cross at the
sector border, "the GDR's state frontier." The SED
First Secretary was evasive on the subject of Allied
access to East Berlin, saying that there would be
no place for such persons. (CONF)
VOPO headquarters in East Berlin notified the West
Berlin Red Cross that several more days would
elapse before any reply to its letter of 24 November
offering to act as an intermediary in establishing
"technical level" contacts between East and West Ber-
lin municipal administrations in order to set up
pass-issuing facilities along the sector border. The
offer had raised "a fundamental -question /Which7 could
be decided only at the highest level," according to
VOPO headquarters..: (CONP)
During Bundestag debate on the policy statement of
new Adenauer government, opposition Social Democratic
(SPD) leaders--including Mayor Brandt--warned against
dealing with the Berlin problem in "isolation", arguing
that no permanent solution is possible apart from Ger-
man reunification. Brandt attacked the idea of a
new "contract" to regulate relations between West
Berlin and West Germany, warning that any changes in
the city's relations with the Federal Republic would
require a constitutional amendment which the SPD can
and will obstruct by blocking the necessary, two
third's vote. (CONF)
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6 Dec GDR Deputy Foreign Minister Otto Winzer denounced
Con't the movement of US troops via the Helmstedt Autobahn
to West Berlin as an "aggressive act," insisting that
"at no time have the governments of the GDR and the
USSR made promises or engaged in undertakings to assure
the transport of NATO troops from and to West Berlin
across the territory of the GDR." (CONF)
According to western press reports, West German truck
drivers arriving at Helmstedt after transitting the
110-mile Autobahn through East Germany told West Ger-
man police of increased VOPO patrols along the entire
length of the interzonal highway. (OONF)
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7 Dec Berliner Zeitung alleged that officials of the West
Berlin enat have made arrangements to flee "at the
appropriate moment.... Three heavily guarded special
planes are standing by in a hangar at Tempelhof air-
port ready to take off.... In view of the small number
of planes, it is obvious that the escape facility has
been restricted to a small circle of leading politi-
cians--first and foremost to the Social Democratic
Mayor Willy Brandt. This small circle is aware that
its policy will inevitably end in failure." (CONF)
REUTERS reported that West Berliners are reconciled
to not visiting East Berlin relatives during the year-
end holidays and quoted unidentified Senat officials
as saying that "there is no more hope left for an
agreement before Christmas." (CONF)
Neues Deutschland published GDR Defense Minister
Heinz o manes speech to:the 14th plenum of the
SED central committee. According to the party daily
and ADN, Hoffmann "expressed the readiness of the
GDR National People's Army 'to make a stand shoulder
to shoulder with the Socialist fraternal armies to
repulse a sudden atomic attack by the enemy and to
foil his criminal aggressive plans.' The joint
exercises of the troops of the united command of the
Warsaw Treaty states in the autumn of this year show
'that the staffs and units of our army have reached
a new high standard of operational and tactical
training and that they are capable at any time of
fulfilling under difficult conditions the tasks
allotted to them by the united command'." Hoffmann
said "the brotherly help of the Soviet Union and the
other Socialist states in no way frees our economy
from the obligations to make the maximum effort to
equip our National People's Army with the most modern
products in the sphere of techniques and armament."
(CONF)
The US Mission reported that "the British here have
told us in the past that the ban on British personnel
in uniform showing identification when entering East
Berlin in vehicles or by foot is only temporary. The
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7 Dec ban on British uniformed personnel showing /:Tdenti-
Con't fication7 when entering by vehicle was instituted,
they say, as an inducement to US and French to
permit US and French civilian officials in vehicles
to show identification. The British have indicated
here that the ban on uniformed personnel showing
identification could be lifted at any time. The
British are interested in preserving the right of
their civilian officials to continue to enter East
Berlin showing their identification and for this
reason apparently are maintaining a 'flexible'
position to their uniformed personnel." (SECRET S/S)
Two East German youths, aged 22 and 23, jumped aboard
the outbound Berlin/Frankfurt US duty train near
Gerwisch by jumping onto the side of a darkened
sleeper car and forcing the lock. They entered a
compartment occupied by American military personnel.
The US personnel, possibly one American couple and
the US train crew presumably were the only people
aware of the refugees' presence. After the East Ger-
man crew had left the platform in Helmstedt, the re-
fugees--dressed in GI caps and coats--were escorted
from the station and surrendered to other US authorities.
(SECRET)
East Berlin's domestic service commentator Griese
surmised that the movement of US troops along the
Autobahn was a "reconnoitering campaign /which7
serves the purpose of familiarizing the soldiers
with the territory on both sides of the Autobahn.,'
He added "it must be pointed out clearly: neither
the government of the Soviet Union nor the GDR govern-
ment has promised to guarantee the movement of NATO
troops to and from West Berlin through GDR territory.
For this reason we warn the organizers of Operation
Eyeball that such a provocation cannot be tolerated."
(;.CONF)
Elements of the 1500-man First Battle Group of the
19th Infantry began moving to Berlin via the Helm-
stedt Autobahn to relieve troops of the 18th In-
fantry sent to Berlin in late August. The rotation
to and from Berlin via the Autobahn was to be com-
pleted on 15 November. (CONF)
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8 Dec At 0838 ADN announced "barriers will be put up at
the seven border checkpoints between the GDR and
West Berlin at 1400 hours today, Friday, in the
interest of orderly frontier traffic. Vehicles
carrying civilians must produce identity papers
at checkpoints, as usual. Vehicles carrying mili-
tary personnel in uniform will continue to pass
through the barriers in accordance with existing re-
gulations." Shortly before 1700, West Berlin police
reported that drop gates had been erected at the
Oberbaumbruecke, Chausseestrasse and Heinrich Heine
Strasse crossing points, and that at Friedrichstrasse
a 66 foot long striped steel pole had been placed
across the road 10 feet in front of the reinforce-
ment wall at the level of the tank traps. "Only
one part of the barrier, a 15-foot drop gate in
front of the passage through the wall on the right-
hand side of the roadway, is open to traffic," ac-
cording to Hamburg DPA. (CONF)
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SED central committee secretary Baumann
cently told the party politburo
"some opposition" among East German party functionaries
to the sealing off of East Berlin on 12-13 August, ac-
cording to Hamburg DPA. Baumann allegedly accused the
Madgeburg party committee of lacking "a clear concept"
with respect to the closing of the sector border and
of failing to combat "social democratism and other
hostile influences." She also charged Potsdam party
officials of "inadequate awareness in regard to
topical problems" and the Schwerin party committee
with "self-complacency, inadequate collectivity of
leadership and slight knowledge of the real situation
in the villages." (CONF)
At an "international press conference" in East Berlin
Reichsbahn director Otto Arndt charged that 800 S-Kahn
coaches had been damaged or demolished by "hired rowdies"
in West Berlin since 14 September and warned that "such
provocations not only endanger the lives and security
of the people of West Berlin but may also have serious
consequences for traffic between West Berlin on the
one hand and the two German states and foreign
countries on the other ...Those who caused, encouraged
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8 Dec and tolerated mischief against Reich railway traffic
Con't and installations in West Berlin will bear the con-
sequences....The railway lines in West Berlin are
also being used by the Western Powers to supply
their occupation troops. They should therefore be
interested in keeping these lines free from any
interference if they do not wish to bear the con-
sequences." (CONF)
East and West Berlin police met by prior arrangement
at the sector border and exchanged prisoners wanted
for murder in their respective jurisdictions. (CONF)
Neues Deutschland reported that the "courageous be-
havior" of a con actor had toiled a "criminal plot"
on the Hamburg-West Berlin train on the night of
5 December, when the train's engineer and fireman--
"hired" by "frontline city bosses"--sought to de-
rail the Hamburg express by abandoning the Oranien-
burg-Albrechtshof commuter train in its path. (CONF)
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9 Dec Soviet authorities informed the three Allied Military
Liaison Missions that all passes must be turned in
for re-registration, although they set no deadline
and said the passes would be turned back immediately.
The US mission was asked to show vehicle passes; the
British and French were not. When the US mission
chief turned in two passes, a Soviet official merely
recorded the data from each pass on a separate sheet
of paper and i?eturned the documents. Chiefs of the
military missions are at a loss to explain the Soviet
motive for re-registering the passes but believe it
may be intended to test Allied reactions and re-
mind the Allies that their missions are at the mercy
of the USSR. (CONF) /n the last occasion that Soviet
authorities called in passes, 31 January 1960, they
were replaced by new documents bearing the statement:
"This identification card, which has been registered
with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the GDR,
gives members of the mission the right to travel
within the territory of the GDR...." The Allied
missions refused to accept the passes, as implying
recognition of the GDR. Soviet authorities finally
withdrew the new passes on 14 March, after the Allies
had imposed sanctions on Soviet military missions in
West Germany. (SECRET) -7
ADN disclosed that the GDR's Minister of Transportation,
Erwin Kramer, had written his West German counterpart
to warn that the Federal Republic's failure to partici-
pate in the recent European conference on freight
train schedules in Leipzig could "seriously hamper"
both international and intra-German rail traffic
since "the smooth operation of border crossing traffic
can be guaranteed only if there is good cooperation
between the railway administrations of the two German
states, .and both of them with the international rail-
way organizations." (CONF)
TASS's Bonn correspondent denounced the "provocative"
movement of US troops "under NATO command" along the
Autobahn as "aimed at aggravating the situation in
Europe" and "fraught with dangerous consequences."
He wrote that "the action of the American brasshats
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9 Dec express the United States' striving to ensure the
Con't uncontrolled communications between West Berlin and
the German Federal Republic and also aim at con-
verting West Berlin into a NATO stronghold, although
West Berlin is not a territory of NATO and is not in-
cluded in the sphere of this aggressive military
alliance." (CONF)
West Berlin police reported that 8 East Berliners and
East Germans, including two border guards, had fled
to the west during the preceding twenty four hours.
(CONF)
Acting Soviet Commandant Colonel Pokrovski.requested
a meeting with General Watson at 1600 hours on 11
December, The US Mission anticipated that Pokrovsky
would protest the movement of US troops along the
Autobahn. (CONF)
The US Mission learned from an Associated Press
correspondent that the GDR Foreign Ministry had in-
vited foreign journalists to a press conference at
1100 hours on 12 December. The correspondent noted
that it is somewhat unusual for the Foreign Ministry
--rather than the GDR Prime Minister or National
Front-to stage press conferences. (CONF)
By noon, work on the installation of lift gate barriers
at the sector crossing points, which had ceased by
darkness on 8 December, had not been resumed at Fried-
richstrasse, Oberbaum Bridge, and Invalidenstrasse.
At Sonnenalle in the US sector, a metal pole barrier
bolted to a wall at the left roadway and a ketal lift
gate at the right roadway were ready for installation
but not yet mounted and there was no construction in,'
progress. In the French sector, Bornholmer Bridge
construction was completed with the installation of
lift gates in both traffic lanes in front of the bar-
rier. Construction at Chausseestrasse was completed
with a lift gate in position at an opening in the wall.
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9-10 A crew of East German Army personnel installed a
Dec belt of mines and trip wires along a three-mile strip
of the zonal border between Harbke and Neubudden-
staedt and Hohnsleben near Helmstedt, according to
West German police. The new belt runs across the
Wulfersdorf opencast lignite mine which is bisected
by the East-West German zonal border. (ODNF)
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10 Dec Nast German rail crews re-routed all interzonal trains
to and from West Berlin through Wannsee-Griebnitzsee
and Wildpark, according to West Berlin police who
reported that one track has been set aside for pas-
senger trains--including Allied duty trains--while
the other is reserved for freight. (CONF)
During his regular bi-weekly radio broadcast, Mayor
Brandt assured West Berliners that his administration
is "not inactive" in trying to arrange intersector
visits. Brandt said he could make no promises, but
promised that no questions of prestige would stand
in the way of Christmas reunions. (CONE)
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11 Dec West Berlin police announced that 15 East Berliners
and Bast Germans--ll civilians, 3 VOPOs and 1 trans-
port policeman--fled to the West during the weekend
of 9-10 November. (CONF)
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2 Dec Laloy of the French Foreign Office sought out Am-
bassador Gavin to convey his views on the "appro-
priate shape" of negotiations on Berlin and Germany.
He said that "the impossible position of his govern-
ment on this matter limited his ability to communi-
cate, but he nevertheless would like his personal
judgment: to be known in Washington." Laloy be-
lieves it essential that the West maintain a diplo-
matic and political stance looking toward unification
in order to help discourage the Germans from entering
into a purely bilateral pursuit of unification via
Moscow. "Paragraphs in U.S. speeches are not enough
and the British position is, in this respect, actively
dangerous." The President's "somewhat definitive
acceptances of a split Germany in the recent Izvestia
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interview" troubled Laloy9 who told Ambassador Gav!
"if we dismantle the western formal commitment to
work for unity, the diplomatic vacuum will soon be
filled on a Bonn-Moscow basis in which only the Soviet
bargaining counter will be aimed against western in-
terests,'" Sepcifically, Laloy argued that the West',
should seek to (1) distinguish sharply between Berlin
and the German question, (2) be forthcoming with res-
pect to the Oder-Neisse, German atomic arms, only to
the extent that the Soviets are forthcoming on uni-
fication and the means for keeping it alive diplo-
matically and politically, (3) be sensitive to the
fact that Moscow is trying to seal off the unif i-
cation issue and destroy the German and Western
bargaining counters for the future. Laloy believes
that the West should make it clear to Moscow, for
example, that, while a Soviet-East German treaty
would not cause war, such unilateral action would
lead the West to free its hands with respect to West
German policy. (CONF S/S BUO)
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