Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Austrian State Treaty; Summit and Foreign Ministers Meetings, 1955, Volume V

121. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom¹

Washington, May 23, 1955—2:36 p.m.

5951. For Ambassador. ReDeptel 5949. Following is second enclosure to message:

I. Issues Which May Be Formulated by the Western Powers:

1. Unification of Germany.

2. Limitation of armaments, including atomic and thermonuclear weapons.

3. Status of Soviet satellites. (Yalta and satellite treaty agreements.)

4. Activities of international Communism. (Litvinov Agreement.²)

II. Additional Issues Which May Be Formulated by USSR:

1. Security Pact for Europe, including withdrawal of US forces.

2. Neutralized band from Finland and Sweden in north, through Germany, Austria, to and including Yugoslavia in south.

3. Five-power conference, to include Communist China, for consideration of Far Eastern matters.

4. East-West trade.

5. “Reduction of tensions”. (This is a vague Soviet catch-all.)

Dulles

1. Source: Department of State, Central Files, 396.1/5–2355. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by MacArthur on May 22. Cleared with Dulles and Merchant. Also sent to Paris and repeated to Moscow. The list of topics had been the subject of a memorandum by Merchant on May 18 that included all of those mentioned below and a few others. (Ibid., 396.1–VI/5–1855) A similar list was drafted by Dulles on May 19 and left with the President. (Ibid., Conference Files: Lot 63 D 123, CF 472) From the progression of the topics presented it is likely that this enclosure was the final draft in that series of papers.
2. In 1933 when relations between the Soviet Union and the United States were established one stipulation was that international Communist activities as controlled by the Soviet Union would cease within the United States. This stipulation became known as the Litvinov Agreement after the Soviet negotiator; for its text, see Foreign Relations, 1933, vol. ii, p. 805.