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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100070015-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Sequence Number: 15
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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1. Schumacher finds Soviet note to West "conciliatory" The US High Commission in Bonn reports that Socialist
leader Schumacher considers the latest Soviet note to the
Western Powers concerning a Conference of Foreign
Ministers relatively conciliatory and that he feels the
prospects for a profitable conference are good, Schu-
macher thinks the Soviet note implied "significant con-
cessions" in the admitting of other questions besides
Germany to the discussion and in leaving the order of the
matters to be discussed to an exploratory conference.
Schumacher emphasized that it would be a grave mistake
to adopt the view that this particular conference might
possibly solve the whole complex of East-West problems;
he feels the most that can be hoped for is that this or even
a later four-power conference might achieve some small
success in turning the trend of events in the right direc-
tion. Schumacher feels it should not be discouraging to
know that it may take 25 such conferences to solve any of
the really big outstanding problems.
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2. FRANCE: Stability of government still in question- -US
Embassy Paris believes that neither the heavy favorable
vote on Pleven's Washington talks nor the new proposal
on family allowances nor the new bill on electoral law re-
form has ended the possibility that the Pleven Government
will be overthrown in the near future. In the opinion of the
Embassy, the most that can be said for certain is that the
immediate danger has been put off, with inter -party dis-
agreements and mutual suspicions unallayed. The coming
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week may bring either a crisis or real agreement on
the basic difficulties of the present coalition, but the
Embassy believes further postponements of major deci-
sions are most likely.
NEAR EAST-AFRICA
3. FRENCH MOROCCO: Juin-Sultan situation "under control"--
US Embassy Paris reports that following Resident General
Juin's departure from France for North Africa, Foreign
Minister Schuman personally assured Ambassador Bruce
that the Juin-Sultan situation is under control and a satis-
factory solution of the Moroccan problem can now be ex-
pected.
Meanwhile, General Juin has complained bitterly to
US Minister Plitt concerning US "interference" in a situation
involving the internal stability of a French protectorate. Juin
did not mention the Sultan to Plitt, but he stressed his inten-
tion to neutralize "political troublemakers."
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