IMPACT OF AUSTRIAN SETTLEMENT

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A000500040010-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Sequence Number: 10
• Content Type: BRIEF

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IMPACT dF AUSTRIAN SETTLEMENT
I. Most important question; what is impact on
German rearmament?
A. Bundestag leaders feel settlement will
cause initial upsurge West German
neutrality. G /
B. However, settlement had noON effect on
Lower Saxony elections (26 Apr) , which
followed pattern other recent state
C. Parties of Adenauer's federal coalition
(Christian Democrats, Free Democrats,
German Party and Refugee Party) polled
higher vote than ever before.
1. Combined vote was 59%,compared
with 50. 3% in '51 Landtag vote,
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bow Social Democrats, who brou&
Austrian issue into last stages of
campaign, polled gpi+yr 35. 2% of vote
(compared with 33% in ' 51, and 30.0%
in'53)
3. Losers were extreme rightists and
Communists, who dropped to under
6% of vote (compared with some 14%
in ' 51) .
4. Issues in Saxon election essentially
local. We watching for longer-term
effects on West German anti-rearmament,
neutralist sentiment.
II. Western observers are in conflict on question
Soviet motivation.
A. Most members
in preliminary
view, see move as full-scale change Soviet
policy.
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1. About-face seen as attempt to
neutralize Germany, get Americans
out of Europe.
B. We more inclined to see .action as dramatic
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