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...powers one more year of occupation rights in Berlin-provided they would reduce their forces in West Berlin to "symbolic" levels (about 50 from each nation), would liquidate all anti-Communist propaganda and espionage organizations in the city, and would agree, when the year was up, to accept an all-German committee (equal membership on both sides) to talk about "reunification." In a final burst of arrogance, Gromyko added that unless the West accepted these conditions, "the Soviet Union will not be willing to ... consent to continuation of the occupation regime in Berlin...
...Four . . . The draftsmen of the Potsdam Treaties-U.S., Soviet Union and United Kingdom-would have been extremely surprised if they had been told that things would work out this way. Did they not point out very clearly that the peace treaty must be concluded with an all-German government? In fact, how could they possibly have imagined any other solution...
...German Electoral Committee" would be nominated by the West and East German governments in a proportion, based on population, of 25 West Germans to ten East Germans. The committee would arrange increasing commercial exchanges-more trains, buses, mail, books, newspapers-culminating in adoption of a common currency. After a period of "at least three years," during which progress could be measured and trust justified, the committee would prepare legislation for free, all-German elections...
...same time he reiterated that the Soviet Union will sign a separate peace treaty with Communist East Germany, an eager potential heir to Soviet occupation controls, if the West refuses to sign an all-German treaty...
...present demands that a Germany unified under free elections could be allowed to make any alliances it wants, (i.e. with NATO) are patently unacceptable to Russia. On the other hand, the West must insist on eventual free determination of an all-German government...