SOVIET AND SATELLITE RADIO COMMENT ABOUT THE CFM SESSIONS IN PARIS

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FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR and Satellites DATE OF
INFORMATION
SUBJECT SOVIET AND SATELLITE RADIO CMENT
ABOUT THE CFM SESSIONS IN PARIS
HOW
PUBLISHED Monitored Radio Broadcasts
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PUBLISHED
DATE
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German radios have touched only briefly upon the problems uppermost at the CFM sessions
during this period--that is, the related problems of Berlin and the veto. The tiost pointed
Soviet commentary on the CB1vi Conference as a whole has been a 7 June broadcast of a PRAVDA
article written by Yuri Zhukov, PRAVDA's Paris correspondent. Zhukov accuses the Western
delegations of propagandizing and of attempting to utilize the CFM rostrum "for purposes
which have nothing in common with preparations of agreed-upon decisions on the mast
important international issues." He suggests that "narrow economic issues--and first and
foremost, trade between Western and Eastern Germany"--constitute the "real business" that
brought the representatives of the Western Powers to the Conference table; to this he
associates Walter Lippmann's "alarm (about) the fact that the Western world, including Germany,
has almost simultaneously entered a period of slump." Otherwise, the Soviet, Satellite, and
Soviet-controlled German radios treat familiar themes in a familiar manner: protests against
the Western policy of "dictation"; charges of Western violations of the Potsdam decisions;
pleas for Gorman unity; and protests against the Western occupation statute and the Bonn
Constitution.
THE "REAL MISINESS" OF THE WESTERN DELEGATIONS; Zhukov's widely distributed PRAVDA article
cites Walter Lippmann in "direct confirmation" of the thesis that the "real business" of the
Western delegations consists only of "limited economic questions," including theuuestion of
trade between Western and Eastern Germany. Lippmann is said to have "sounded the alarm
because the Western world, including Germany, is almost certainly entering a perio*,of
recension with shrinking trade and sharpened competition for markets." He is further quoted
to the effect that the West-Gorman state will be facing a crisis if it cannot sell its manu-
factures and that the U.S. also is interested in finding markets for its own exports in the
face of the impending slump.
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WESTERN "PROPAGANDA' PRIOR TO COMLNG TO THE "REAL BU52NrSS11 : "Why did the Western delegations
deem it necessary to spend so much time coming to the 'real business?I" asks Zhukov. He
answers this question with the charge that "Acheson delivered a number. of speeches meant by
no means for the hearers around the Rose Palace table but directed over their heads to the
readers of U.S.land pro-U.S. papers published in Western Germany." He allegedly wanted to
convince the Germans that the Western Powers stood for German unity and German self-government.
But "all this heap of flowery verbiage wilted and dried up as soon as the Soviet delegation
directed on it the clear spotlight of merciless analysis. Vishinsky demonstrated the in-
siiL.cerity and hypocrisy of those who, while asserting that the Germans must govern themselves,
are in fact doing everything they can to deprive the Germans of the possibility to do so."
THE_!' ',TROD OF DICTATION": As has been true of Soviet, Satellite, and Soviet-controlled
'broadcasts since the Conference began, Zhukov devotes attention to the policy of "Diktat"
that is pursued by the Western delegations. Noting Acheson's "demand... for immediate
ratification of lthe Atlantic Pact," the'Soviet commentator claims that "it would be naive
to' suppose that those who put forward their obviously unacceptable proposals, to the
accompaniment of -talk about the immediate ratification of the Atlantic Pact, expected
seriously that they would succeed in imposing these proposals upon the Soviet delegation."
(He then reverts to a previous Soviet charge that the Western delegations are only interested
In converting Western Germany into a military place d'armes and in preventing German unity.
"The maintenance of a dismembered Germany suits them perfectly.")
In conclusion, Zhukov warns: "It is high time that the lo U.S. bloc should understand
that the method lof 'Diktat' can have no success in dealing with the USSR, whose policy in
relations with other countries was is based on the principle of equal rights and collabor-
ation founded on friendly agreement and mutual understanding." One thing is clear, he says:
"The questions on the agenda of the Paris session can be successfully solved if the method
of the 'Diktat' is left outside the door... and if all participants in the Conference prove by
acts their positive attitude towards international collaboration, the classical examples of
which were given at the historic conferences in Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam."
quarters. Budapest makes the flat statement that the Western proposals were presented with
the' deliberate intention of being flatly rejected by the USSRI. On the other hand, Prague
says that "the whole atmosphere in which the talks are takingggplace indicates that all the
parties to these negotiations are trying hard to achieve at least a partial success."
Slatellite comment adds little
_ of'interest to Moscow's output, except for an unusual discrepancy between unqualified
denunciation in some quarters and qualified approval of the Western delegations in other
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