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...Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet foreign minister, seems to have yielded scarcely an inch to make a stopgap, face-saving Berlin solution possible. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter of the United States, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd of Britain and Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville of France have stood firm on their starting positions...
...Andrei Gromyko - The governments of the U.S.A., Great Britain and France have submitted for consideration by our conference a proposal in which many questions appear to be chained to each other . . . We are sure this plan was never designed to bring about agreement ... It stands to reason that this is a graphic manifestation of the technique of tying up problems of different nature in a single large tangle as a means of making their solution more difficult...
...listening to our colleague with my invariable interest, but this time with occasional astonishment at some of his particularly categorical judgments, I wondered why we Westerners had ever taken the trouble to draft this plan which we hoped in good faith might at least be discussed . . . [Mr. Gromyko's] reply moves me, indeed, to remark, adapting a French saying, that in discussion with the Soviet delegation, we pay for our past concessions...
...deadly sins with which Mr. Gromyko charges this Western proposal is what I might call the sin of being a package plan . . . All we have done, which indeed complicates the problems, has only one aim: to reply in advance to the Soviet government's objections and allay its fears. We understand perfectly well that reunification of Germany in freedom arouses anxiety in our Russian colleagues . . . [So] we thought it better to attach to German reunification a number of provisions relating to security and disarmament which would be likely to allay these Soviet misgivings...
Selwyn Lloyd - I have studied this [Soviet] draft peace treaty carefully. It has one merit. It is in itself a refutation of Mr. Gromyko's principal criticism of the Western peace plan: that it is a package. The Soviet draft shows clearly how interrelated are these various problems-reunification of Germany, security provisions, an interim status for Berlin . . . The Soviet treaty would be a Diktat . . . What the Soviet government is doing in effect is to show that they wish to impose terms on Germany as was done at Versailles...