DR. SCHRODER ON THE RETURN OF THE EASTERN TERRITORIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000400360003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 18, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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1h a privain ec rsat.on men Dr. 1helm el1 Schr&lw (mot .a for Posts
and Telegraphs iu the Soviet authorized metal- A t bie i) a i a SM
wend v&M he bed, knwn woU ire, 3.923 to 1945, Se brier co,1ained that
it the SPA which W perpetually raisins the quwU of the return of
the East 'I ito ies,. had caused Stalin to m1w his -no cer nt that
m w's eaat n frees' ms final., It wouM ter` be necessary, Schrbder
said, to wait for yaws before the r .tter em ad be brought up again with
hope of success
in 1ooutar objected that the Russians did not Willy decide the
pol,.icy by reforan to declarations inde by politi : parties in other states
stud urged twat., in tk case, considerations of an ont 3.r different n t
had been imtroduoed. Schr;3der eepi.ed that co idored the Russo-Polish
?a pproaohe t to be rr ety e ortur.st but that the present eastern frontier
? a mete`.' of Russian rali fiery seems .
Sch der alleged that an attempt had been na4v to arrange' a meeting between
tin SED and the Polish PM-PPS. (E rew Left V" 3.ng) bloc, Pieck and tkrotewohl,
Scher sa .d,,,. had ' . rated to obtain from the Poles a statement whieh'would
u: left o3,en the posattx3.lity of a revision of the eastem frontier, The
PFR and PAS., fie, had refused such a statement and, indeed,., even to met
thy: SED . -
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Scboder a .lif ed his comet of this alleged approach. by the SEI) to the Poles.
He c o u l d r i o t guarantee that e v e n t s w e r e a c y as he de ?ibed them; though
be believed that his account was substantially actuate. In arq event., Schr%der
considered that the only sensible solution of the eastern ontier c do
lay in direct negotiations between the SM, and the dot Polish parties,
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