Evening star., 1948-10-03
Soko|ovsky Warns Berlin Crisis
Can't Be Solved by U.N. Debate;
Russia Shifts It's Atomic Stand
Disbonding ofNew
WestGermunStdte
Price Of Any Pact
By the As.oeiofed Press

BERLIN, Oct. 2.-The Russian
commander in Germany told the
world tonight to expect no solu-
tion of the Berlin crisis from the
United Nations. He said agree
ment could be reached only by
direct negotiation with the
Soviets.
Debate on the blockade starts
Monday in Paris. The United States.
Britain and France referred the
explosive issue to the United Ma
tions Security Council, accusing
Russia of endangering peace and
security.
Marshal VASTLY Sokolovsky indi-
Gated in long statement the main
price of any agreement is a disSolu-
ton of the Western German state
which the Western powers are form
ing. Western officials have said
many times they will not abandon
their plan.
West German State Blamed.
Marshal Sokolovsky gave strong
indication the Western powers re-
fusal to give up the West German
state was the real reason for the
collapse of Big Four talks after an
apparent agreement had been
reached.
Trying to get solution Of this
question in other ways is only aim
ing at continuing the abnormal sit
uation," he said. and it will not
lead to the results the Western oc-
cupation powers hope for"
Coming just as the U. N. discus
sion on Berlin is about to begin.
Marshal Sokolovskys statement was
taken here as a warning that the
Soviet Union would not agree nor
abide by any U. N. action.
The Soviet commander In Ger
many gave the first inkling of why
the agreements reached by the Big
Four in Moscow with Prime Min
lister Stain we're sabotaged in sub
sequent Berlin talks. Negotiations
were broken off early this week after
the Russians demanded control Of
the Allied Airlift to Berlin.
Preview Of Soviet Line.
Marshal Sokolovsky also gave
what is probably a preview of the
Russian line before the snited Ma
tions in the Berlin dispute open
ing in Paris Monday.
He stressed that the rail, road
and barge routes to Berlin were
blocked in June because of what he
called "the partitioning of Germany
as conducted by the Western pow
ers."
The statement suggested strongly
that the Soviet Union decided at
some stage during the Moscow talks
that an agreement on Berlin would
come only If the United States,
Britain and France abandoned their
plans in Western Germany. When
the West refused, the Moscow agree
ments were deadlocked by new de-
mands in negotiations that followed
here between the four military gov
ernors.
Marshal Sokolovsky asserted the
four power air agreement for traf-
fic to and from Berlin gave the Wes-
tern powers the right only to serve
the requirements of occupation
troops of the Western powers in
Berlin"
Hint Of Russian Crackdown.
This appeared to be an implied
hint Of Russian breakdown on
the Berlin airlift, which has been
supplying the 100000 or more Ger
mans in Western Berlin during the
blockade.
He contended there was and Is
not a blockade of Berlin" He said
Western Berliners could get food
and coal from Russia if they regis
tered in the Eastern part of Berlin
and that they need not depend on
the airlift, which he termed an ex-
pensive "propagandistic measure
that burdens Germany with super
fluous cost"
The most interesting part of
Marshal Sokolovskys long question
and answer statement was his reply
to a query about what caused the
blockade.
If the Western Powers did not
have in mind the splitting of Ger
many, neither the Berlin nor any
other crisis in German affairs would
have arisen" he said.
He repeated many times the
Soviet charge that the six power