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eee ne Ha Rat il i IONS 7 Bo PBT OT, 14-00000 : \ So such for the License, the terma of which were ehown to our YICOG frienda and regarded by then ag highly favorable. Our political discussions suffered fro~- a variety of frustrations, We ssrecd on the licens: terms wit!, the Bundespost on Foubrusxry 19th, anc an azpoiatcent wee made fer ; us to gece Pr. Lenz = the offici..l te whom fLoctor Adenauer had referred our prebleng = ats noon on Thursday, February 21, 1952, Diex and I, tnereforo, took an early train from Frankfort and were set at the Bonn station by Fritz Kenpner who told us that the arpointiuent hud pean caneslied as Er, Leng had been called to the Chancullery on an urgent matter, Fritz said that he hal bean told that if wc wert to Dre Lenzts office, his assistan® would make a definite appointe ment for us later, Ve cid this, ani wera received by a smocth and noneco;n-ittal dnsividual, wio said he woule not be vin touch with Dr. Lenz until nine otclock tint evening, and could not make any celinite dato until after he had spoxen with Lenze I had the very uncomfortable feeling that we were baing given a run-around, and Fritz was very much annoyed, We finally got tne young cKap to agres that he woule try to reach Leng before evening, and that we would tals hone his during course of tro afternoon to know what infor-ation he had been able to obtain, We telephoned rep -atedly, but the answer was alwaya the sot; “nothing to repert®. Dick and T, thererore, took tra train buck to Fr.n«fort, while Fritz stayed in’ Bonn anc, in tne evening, ha tele:noned thet he had finally got sore infcrcation. fro Lens' young assistant that Leng had turned the entire ~atter over to a regular Foreir¢n Ofrice ofricial naced stroh@, and that we were to Take arran@ genents to see Etrohm,. Fritz said that he ha- endeavored to do thig, but had baen told by Strohais office thet he could not be sure to sce us until Thursday, the (8th, although Wednesday, the “7th, waa 4 slight pessiblility, As I think I wrote c,P., tic Pagening eolebrations Ware resching their clinax ov. > that veekend, and the first two d«yg of the next verg, and [ hav> ne cout that Strohats unavailability was, to 2 certcin extent, relate: to Fasching, Frite acid that curing his visit to tn: Forel n Ofrice build ing he noticed that th. Proums were ail csecorated with Pa ching decoritiong, so trait even the hicjhest o*vicials anoarently tske Pasching sericusly. Not wanting to caxe another frulte lesa trip ta Ronn, J aecige: we voulds accept Strohm's appointee went for Thursday, Ferruvry cethe At 10.30 AM on Thursday, Pe‘ runry 28th, Dick, Frits and J presente: ourselves at Strohe’s office. Ve vere not by a soter ani not toa effusive iniivicucl, naned Bruckner, whe inforred us that, unf rtunately, Tr, Strohm had btaen éallod away froz his office, that he wouls Preturn a3 sson a8
fete meametmey nee ma TS DML Sp atte iY Abeta tte, OO Sam Ses SRE gay 14-00000 he could and that, mosnvniile, he -© Brueknor = would be glad to start pralicinary discus. ionse ; Agein, I placed . covevhat sinistor interpretation on what anseared to be « chronie tonvenecy on tne pert of the Ger un officisls authorized te nerotiate with us to be absonge whenever wa put in an arceareance for the rurpese of nevotlae ting with ¢oien, My pessinism was Increaset by the very rigid and uncodoptrative attitude of Brucanary altnough J resi ized trait having no authority and vsroba ly heaving heen incufticiente ly briefed he WAS, nituraliy, ec pine his neck vell within the protection of nia coliar, In acy cats, he breucht up some f the stickiest uestions conn-etec with sur operation, talkca of parliasentary interpeliations, of the respon sibility of tna German authorities for snytring broadcast from Gerran soil, of the dnportdnee of Geruin zerticipstion in cet-rmining progran content, of the dangers of arousing refugee ant«gonism, and so on anc sa farthse After an hour of this, I Wac poaedy to call it a day and sugvest that wa come back wien v2 conld talk to Strohm but, fortunately, at that momant Strohm ca-e¢ in ani the ontire * atsosphere chanzede He apoiogizec presusely - and espoerently Sincerely ~ for tho delay, exprasses hinself anzjous 40 ¢O- operate in every possisle vay to meet cur reus recente, brushed aside sone of the technicalities raised by Bruckner, and got dow. ta tne essentials very rapidly, We vent over the ground we had previously gone over with Bruckner, we ex- plained our -urpose an’ “opt our feet fairly firmly planted on the principles which we regardec on tasie, Fhe result of ‘.s our long discussion was substantial acreesent on the two things that carttered most; a) license term of five years, and b) no uncuilified cancellation richt of the kind first euc. ested br the Buncespost, and more or less inaistsa uson by Rruckner, fre srea of agreencnt was so troad that we sus ested an adjournment to pear it us to nut im writing the «,re-sent we hed rece ‘hed, Feoturn witi it to the Forsicn Office, and agree upon « final texte Fritz Wea sx Little too optinistic Porarding the task that lay ‘efor: ug, and 1% wn. cle Pp en hour er so terore the tine fixed for our art miocn a-reintren® thet ve would not be Pesdy, gO ©. tel-proned to Strobe and postponed the appointzent until the next “dan at noon. Ve vorked all afterno nm at VICOG, anc until artcr meicnight in our Cologne notel. Wo hoc tuleed about sn exchange of lettera as the vehicle for the a. reement, but it becene 4377ierlt to detare mine who was vriting what to whom since the Gervans eculd not
met abateainy ot REE Nae AS te Eat ne es rads Thank tin tel ne Reece Secon. «toe Bi, very ‘eli offer te give us sonething we hat not asked fer, and we, the New York State Corporation, coulchardly demand certein righte fren tne Gervun Govern: ont, Nothing thet wa vere acle to compose aatiafied ay recuiresents until shortly before nidnight the us: of su new forcula, netely, e secoraniuc of understending betvaen me, . revresenting NCFE, and Dre (whether Strohm, Lenz, or Hullstein ewnidch I do aot tnow) Fepresinting the Garnan Government, couls be initialed ana sade the basis far arree= rent. This forsula hreke the sental logejam, and ve ¢iu a paper, a copy of which is anclosed, . Friday morning, we veot back to HICOG, Pick typed the manuseript which Fritr and I] had prepared, and ve took a copy in to San Aecber, San raised » fae questions which we were @usily atlo to ansver, mada one sussastion, nately, the insartion oY the word t:sic® fn tha 8th line on page 3, then expressed himself as completely antisfied, He rttached the very greatest isp rtance to getting fron the Gersanr the _endorsenent of RFE's objectives, which thay hracd given to us orally and which we expressed in the purajraph cowsencing at the botto: of page 2e He thowzht »: world have accomplished the al:cst icpossitle if we oLtaineé such written endorse= mente From HICOG we want direct to Dr. Gtrohuts office, shoved Ain the memorandum (Fritc had net had time to or-pare a@ Gernen transiation and we wera afraid this visit «alay matters, but Strohm sait ne fuwis the text entirely clear) and got fron him fa.cdiautely a vracti¢cally conplate ay -roval, Bruckner joined uz a lit:le later, and he rollowed Strohmis lead, There were only two points of diffare:ce bet ern us, and neither o: then 44¢ J re ,ird acs sutatantial, You will gee tnrat on page § J asked for agrennent tat the Gersan @overnzent would cooper.te with ug to tre fullest possitle axtent in reap-ct of three iteas, only one of wilch, nately, (ec) was vitnin tho competency of the Forsiin Cf'ice. stroha and Brueclmer argucd very logically that the Porcicn oftice Goulé not bind the Finance ‘iiai-try or an: othe iniatry of the Gevven Gavornuent anit atvised vary earnestly against geexing im scvanes to obtain the asrrovwal of the Finance Ministry. J reeocnigee tro wallédity af both these vointe, I incor;orated Itens (a) and (%) in t).: parer bacsuse J did not cow woo Woulc si.m om tre prt of the Go~ in Jovorn=onte Had it 50 m Acenuuer or, Sy his instructiong, Heilsatein, it esulc be argued that thelr sisneturesg dil in efta.% cind the entire Government. If, however, 1% wis to oo Ctrohm, a: he fadicats:. ft woule be, t.en, obviously, he wi- without pover fn the procises, It wos agried, therefore, trict (a) ent (d) woulc be o-vitted, and that imateal theresa? Strohm would draft @ general cicure binding tne Torei n offiee to cooperate to the Maliast posiilie extent with WORE in Poaching satisface tery golutienga of any protlesas aPisirg betvecn NCFE and any