POPULAR REACTION TO GENEVA CONFERENCE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007700020010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 8, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY East Germany
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SUBJECT Popular Reaction to Geneva Conference DATE DISTR. 8 August 1955
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Inhabitants of East Germany are generally disappointed with the outcome of the
recent conference of the Big Four at Geneva, since they had expected concrete 25X1
results affecting the German question. Any hopes for a miracle to come from
Chancellor Adenauer's visit to Moscow have now been replaced by a feeling of
resignation.
2. The initial satisfaction over the positive attitude of the Western powers towards
the German situation has been replaced by disappointment that the West, because
of its "trusting nature", had been misled by the Soviet Union. In particular,
there is a decrease of confidence in the United States and a tendency to make
comparisons with the meetings at Yalta and Potsdam. Some people conjecture that
President Eise3 bower has made a deal with the Russians at the expense of
Germany.
3. It is felt that Chancellor Adenauer was the loser at Geneva, and that therefore
his visit to Moscow will be barren of results. There is some tendency to
accept the SED allegation that Adenauer is an enemy of reunification.
4. Despair is felt over the Soviet attitude. The Russians are thought to have
gained all their objectives without making any concessions. Further, it is
expected-that the Russians will stand to gain by a lessening of the cold war,
and that any relaxation will help them to repair their economy, with the result
that they will be less ready in the future to make concessions in the German
question.
The visit of Bulganin and Khrushchev was viewed apathetically by the East
Germans.
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